Tasting Notes
Robert Parker 90
The dense plum/purple-colored 1999 offers up aromas of truffles, underbrush, espresso, black cherries, and roasted meats. The wine is powerful and muscular with high extract and mouth-searing tannin, it is an atypically backward effort for the vintage. Patient connoisseurs who admire wines with this level of intensity will be handsomely repaid for their discipline. Anticipated maturity: 2007-2020.
Anticipated maturity: 2007-2020
Vinous 89
The 1999 Pavie-Macquin, Nicolas Thienpont’s fourth vintage, is a wine that I have not tasted since en primeur. It is quite deep in color, with thick bricking on the rim. The attractive bouquet offers red fruit, hung game and a discreet shaving of black truffle, not complex but well defined. The well-balanced palate leads off with a menthol-tinged opening. There is decent weight and grip here, though a peppermint-tinged finish obscures the terroir. That said, the wine has held up well over the last 20 years. Tasted from an ex-château bottle at the estate.
Anticipated maturity: 2019-2030