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Wine Spectator : Note : 93
Outstanding. Dark ruby color, with gorgeous aromas of tobacco, chocolate, berry and grilled meat. Full-bodied and very concentrated, with wonderfully velvety tannins and a long, long, decadent finish. Superb.--1990 Bordeaux retrospective. Best from 2005 through 2015. 5,000 cases made.
The Wine Advocate : Fev.1993 note : 90
The 1990 is shaping up as the finest effort in decades from this well-known producer. It ...
Wine Description
The Story
Clos Fourtet enjoys an ideal setting, with its 47 acres of walled vineyard atop a limestone-based plateau. Clos Fourtet was sold in 2001 by the the Lurton family for just under £42 million to the Cuvelier family. By lowering yields, encouraging malolactic fermentation in stainless-steel tanks and employing less new oak, Clos Fourtet shows greater precision.
Wine Information
Weather conditions :This was a hot year with lovely, fine, sunny weather.
The high summer temperatures were beneficial for the grapes Drought conditionsstarted to set in, but the vines dug down into their reserves and gave us an outstanding wine.
Growing season :
A very rainy April, then very good weather conditions for the flowering.
July and August had very little rainfall and were very hot, as was September. This was a hot weather vi...
Vintage 1990
Early, uniform flowering, a hot but unspectacular summer and an exceptionally hot period at the end of August 1990 and the first half of September. It was this heat that allowed the record harvest not only to fully ripen, but also to concentrate the fruit. Harvesting began on September 14 and was completed before the start of heavy rains on October 2. Another reason for the success of the vintage was that most châteaux had invested in their ce...