Chateau Pichon Longueville, Comtesse de Lalande, Pauillac (Grand Cru), 1990
This wine first hits you with a tobacco, celery and parsley smells. It initially tastes like cigars, tobacco and roasted red peppers. Then flavors of carob emerge. It has that river rock, deep lake thing going on. There is a flavor of cayenne pepper with dirt and blueberry. It's chalky, the dryness of chalk with that sour apple pucker in your mouth. There's a rotting smell -- decomposing. After 40 minutes, the wine was much richer and thicker. It was a bit thin at the beginning. Now it is very full-bodied and tastes of root vegetables. Beets! And something pickled -- like Japanese pickled roots. It has the flavor and smell of Asian pickling. There's also a parsley/mint/cilantro flavor. And a woody green bean smell.
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9.0