L'Evangile 1989 (750ML)

98 DE / 96 WA

Utterly gorgeous, wonderful white truffle notes coming through the fruit, alongside leather, liquorice and tobacco and pure, juice-filled black cherries. The last year with just Madame Simone Ducasse at the helm, with perhaps 10% new oak used, and 91% first wine produced – it would have been more, but the DBR Lafite team arrived in 1990 for the final ageing and blending, and they introduced Blason de L’Evangile as a second wine. Mouthwatering and succulent: Pomerol at its very heights.-Jane Anson, Decanter

The 1989 is probably the best L’Evangile of that decade. It has a scintillating pure bouquet with dark plum and cranberry fruit, those distant notes of peat and heather straight out of a Jane Austen novel. The palate is wonderfully balanced with more glycerin than the previous bottle. It feels so fleshy and corpulent in the mouth with the Cabernet Fran lending the backbone that should see it age for another decade at least. Outstanding. Drink now-2030. Tasted October 2012.-Neal Martin, The Wine Advocate