You can immediately see the quality of this vintage, and there remains an intensity and a power to the wine even at 24 years old. Warming clove and turmeric spice notes show the sunshine of the year, along with walnut, tobacco, cold ash. The tannins are melted and silky, and still evident. Blackberry fruits, puree, a soufflé of fruit. Worth noting also that you can still buy this wine from the estate, unusual to be able to source older vintages of Pomerol, but Nenin is an exception. 35% new oak.

The finest Nenin in many decades the dense ruby/purple-colored 1998 exhibits aromas of coffee melted caramel vanilla plums and black cherry jam. It is full-bodied with an unctuous texture superb purity and a silky seamless finish...