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  • Country ranking ?

    236
  • Producer ranking ?

    10
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    now to 2030
  • Food Pairing

    Butternut Squash and Cheddar Strata

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The Story

Château Le Pin, or simply Le Pin, is an unclassed Bordeaux wine from the appellation Pomerol. There has never been an official classification of Pomerol. Even so, Chateau Le Pin commands prices that put it at levels equal to the best wines of Bordeaux. The unusually small estate is located on the Right Bank of France’s Gironde estuary, and its wine is periodically one of the world's most expensive red wines. Le Pin was the first of the "garage...

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Vintage 1990

An early, even flowering, a warm but unspectacular summer and an exceptionally hot period during the end of August and the first half of September. It was this heat that made it possible for the record harvest to not only to fully ripen, but also to concentrate the fruit.  The harvest started on September 14 and was finished before heavy rains commenced on October 2. Another reason for the success of the vintage was that most châteaux had inve...

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Average Bottle Price

2023 2020 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2005 2000
4 450€ +11.2% 4 001€ +14.0% 3 511€ -5.0% 3 694€ +11.0% 3 329€ +11.1% 2 996€ -9.9% 3 326€ -3.0% 3 429€ +183.2% 1 211€ +154.4% 476€

This data comes from the FINE Auction Index, a composite of average prices for wines sold at commercial auctions in 20 countries. The average prices from each year have been collected since 1990. This chart plots the index value of the average price of the wines.

Latest Pro-tasting notes

12 tasting notes

Tasting note

color

Full

ending

Long, Extensive and Flavorful

flavors

Licorice, Vanilla, Coffee and Herbs

nose

Intense

recommend

Yes

taste

Warming, Well-structured, Full-bodied, Rich, Full and Sweet tannins

Written Notes

The intense nose of the 1990 Le Pin really stood out, bursting with plums and cassis, along with their trees ready to be plucked from the garden of Versailles. Edges of green beans and stalk rounded out the nose. The palate was rich and lovely, continuing the decadent fruit theme with hints of coffee and more green bean. The 1990 had outstanding thickness and richness, setting it apart from most of the pack in this distinguished flight.
  • 96p

This is among the most profound Le Pins made to date. The wine exhibits a dense, dark ruby/plum colour, a spectacular, hedonistic aromatic profile consisting of exotic spices, jammy kirsch and other black fruits intermixed with lavish quantities of pain grille. On the palate, the wine is a velvety-textured fruit bomb with layers of concentration, fabulous ripeness, copious glycerin, and well-integrated sweet tannin. It is a decadently rich, voluptuously-textured, full-bodied wine that is impossible to resist, even though it is still an infant in terms of development.

  • 99p

Tasted on the 9th December 2016. This wine showed fasscinating and riveting display of richness, sophisticated touch and variety of flavours in kinky, funky way. Melot at its best here! Just imagine how long this wine will keep, because at age of 26 years there still is many yearsto go.

  • 99p
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Information

Origin

Pomerol, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Outstanding

Value For Money

Good

Investment potential

Excellent

Fake factory

There is a possibility

Glass time

1h

Drinking temperature

16
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