1996 Wine from France

TheWineCellarInsider.com, 90 points: Looking and tasting much older than its true age, the wine has taken on more of a copper coloring. Losing some of its sweetness, you find more creme brulee, orange and caramel, than sweet, tropical, honeyed fruits. This...

View From The Cellar, 93 points: I was not travelling to Bordeaux back when the 1996s were first displayed, and my primary business at this time in the wine trade was not young claret, so I do not have anywhere near as much tasting experience with the...

View From The Cellar, 93 points: I was not travelling to Bordeaux back when the 1996s were first displayed, and my primary business at this time in the wine trade was not young claret, so I do not have anywhere near as much tasting experience with the...

Decanter, 97 points: 23 years old and yet one of the best wines in the vertical, this has real power and grip, still with a tannic buildup through the palate that's packed full of the Left Bank signatures: menthol, cassis, dark brambled...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 89 points: ...exhibits a deep ruby/purple color and a powerful nose of licorice black currants and spicy new oak. There is sweet fruit on the attack and medium body but the firm tannin gives the wine grip and delineation as well as...