Incredible old champagne from a legendary vintage, showing aromas and flavors of dried apples and pineapple with balsamic undertones and sweet croissants. It's full-bodied with caramel, salted butter and pie crust as well...

It's hard to imagine how a wine of this power can sustain perfect balance. What is now a more nonchalant intensity in the aroma was, in fact, too much to handle when we tasted this last year, as if the wine had no time...

Spicy, meaty aromas are accented by a cool menthol streak. Toasty blackberrry fruit and bakery spices like anise and cinnamon play together happily on the palate. This is a classy blend, with coffee and a welcome herbal...

Medium to deep garnet-brick colored, 1996 Phelan Segur delivers classic, serious claret scents of cigar box, pencil lead, and dried Provence herbs, over a core of prunes and dried cherries. The medium-bodied palate has...