The favorite sweet wine of millionaires, Chateau d'Yquem has, not unexpectedly, turned in a brilliant effort. It is a large-scaled, massively rich, unctuously-textured wine that should evolve effortlessly for a half century or more. It does not reveal the compelling finesse and complexity of the 1988 or 1986, but it is a far heavier, richer wine...

Wow - what a treat! This is the kindof wine that's bucket list for me. Favorite champagne and the oldest one of these that I've ever had I think. Just spectacular. Complex and interesting and vanilla and lemon and toast and drinking really lovely but of course with many years left.

The 1988 d’Yquem has an incredibly profound nose of orange marmalade, dried apricots, honeycomb, musk and dried pineapple with hints of marzipan and crystallized ginger. The palate is seamless with a great line of crisp acid cutting through the densely packed dried tropical fruit and honeyed flavour layers.Very classy and beautiful, packed with ...

The mouth develops incredible energy. The touch is very dense but textured, the juice is incredibly concentrated, with perfect balance. Everything is intense. The tannins that were still somewhat prominent at the start of the tasting have melted to give way to an explosive finish of rarely crossed length.I think the mouth is still a bit compact ...

the Palmer 1989 is the best release from the Margaux estate. Like many 1989s, the nose is developing more tertiary element with age, perhaps an autumnal bouquet with dried leaves, woodland and undergrowth underlying the ripe black fruits. With continued aeration there is just a touch of brine. The palate is tannic on the entry with very good den...

Slow-ox for 1.5+ hours before sampling. Wonderfully balanced musty nose of mushroom revealing a restrained gentleness of a wine ready to flow. Medium-bodied, the wine envelopes your mouth with creamy, mature cherries, soil, and soft leather mouthfeel that dance lovingly into a long, silky, savory finish. The wine was beautiful and hit every note...

At first this is bright, fresh, youthful and has loads of acid and green and yellow citrus. More green apple than toast up front. This bottle started to show a little more red apple and developed flavours than the freshest laser-like examples of this wine usually do. Often I feel I am drinking these too young but this was in a good window of dev...

Totally shut down and enclosed, with an impressively saturated purple/black color and a promising but tightly strung nose of mineral, vanilla, espresso, black cherry and currant, this wine has beautiful purity, medium to full body, relatively high but sweet tannin, and a long 30-35 second finish. The wine is very firm but impressive as well as p...