1990 Chateau de Fargues Sauternes [WA96][JG94][WS94]

Producer: Chateau de Fargues
Region: Sauternes, Bordeaux, France  
Varietal: Sauternes 
Year: 1990 

Wine Advocate, 96 Points 

"Delivering 130 grams-per-liter residual sugar at 13.6% alcohol, it has a prodigious bouquet of over-ripe oranges, toffee apple, chlorophyll and even a faint hint of chocolate. The palate is medium-bodied with a luscious ripe mandarin and apricot-tinged entry, building wonderfully to a botrytis-laden finish that fans out like a firework, leaving traces of cumin and dried orange peel on the long finish. The ’90 de Fargues is simply superb in every way, a multi-faceted wonder." 

John Gilman, 94 Points 

"The 1990 Château de Fargues is now at its apogee of peak maturity and drinking with plenty of style and complexity. The bouquet delivers a fine aromatic combination of apricot, orange peel, butterscotch, chalky soil tones, a delicate touch of nuttiness and incipient notes of the cherry to come with further bottle age. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, crisp and beautifully complex, with lovely focus and grip, a fine core and a very long, very elegant and vibrant finish. Just a lovely vintage of de Fargues." 

Wine Spectator, 94 Points 

"This is really a wild wine. Emits wonderful aromas of orange peel, dried fruits and honey, and is full-bodied and incredibly concentrated, with fine acidity and a long, zingy, sweet aftertaste." 

Alcohol: 13.5% 

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