1989 Mouton-Rothschild, Pauillac and cooked shiitake mushroom

and cooked shiitake mushroom

The wine out distances both Leoville Las Cases and Leoville Barton

they are quite scary looking

No doubt Helen Turley

it is anything but once on the palate

1989 Mouton-Rothschild, Pauillac and cooked shiitake mushroomShows so much ripe and decadent fruit on the nose, from dried berries and raisin to strawberry and sultana. There is a nutty, cedar undertone as well. Very complex and full bodied, with lots of vanilla bean and ripe plum flavors. This is almost Burgundian in texture: so soft and so attractive, but then the Bordeaux tannins kick in at the end. What a wine. So much ahead in its life, but just coming around now. 89 '99 Bordeaux blind retrospective