January 1990 - The Richebourg was an explosive wine with an earthy cinnamon gingery soy sauce aroma backed up with the intense smell of plums and toasty new oak. Extremely rich full bodied and awesomely proportioned this heroic wine should be drunk from the late nineties through the first two decades of the twenty-first century. It seems bigger fuller and more powerful than even the celestial 1985.

April 1991 - Tight and beautifully focused with a laser beam of plum raspberry and tart cherry flavor hinting at cola and spice around the edges nailed in place by lavish tannins and sharp acidity. It's an age-worthy package already showing a glimmer of silky te 1000 cases made.