Wonderful mint and black currant aromas that follow through to the palate. Full-bodied and velvety-textured with lots of fruit and a long long finish. Exceptional.--1990 Bordeaux retrospective. Drink now through 2010. 25000 cases made. –JS

The 1990 La Lagune is a brilliant effort that outperforms in this vintage. Offering up a rich bouquet of blackberries, vine smoke, loamy soil and black truffle, mingled with subtle hints of cigar box, it's medium-bodied, ample and enveloping, with melting tannins, ripe acids and a long, expansive finish. This is an especially velvety, sensuous wine that's at its peak today but in no danger of imminent decline. In fact, I can't think of a better mature La Lagune in my tasting experience (which stretches back to the 1955). - William Kelley