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. (RP)

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Luxuriantly powerful and now fully mature fruit aromas of jam, spice and violets with essence of pinot extract aromas lead to amazingly powerful yet velvety medium bodied flavors that are supported by firm but softenting tannins where the extract more than buffers them on the delicious, long and mouth coating if ever-so-slightly warm finish. This mildly rustic effort has now reached full maturity and is drinking perfectly now though some may wish to wait even longer to allow the still moderately firm tannins to soften further. That said, I do not believe the overall quality will improve materially from its present level. Tasted multiple times with consistent notes save for one oxidized bottle.

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