Saint-Julien Red Bordeaux Blend

The 1989 Beychevelle repeats its performance from a blind tasting in London earlier in 2018. It has an old-school bouquet of dusky black fruit, morels and that light seawater note. The palate is medium-bodied with quite sharp tannin and rustic in style, featuring leathery red fruit and iron ore, though as I noted before, it has faded in recent years and I cannot see much benefit in cellaring this longer. Tasted from an ex-cellar bottle at the château. (Neal Martin, Vinous, September 2019)

At Mark's, for Matt's 26th—

Beautifully resolved and fully mature. Very elegant. Drink now!

Great googly moogly. Totally alive, with silky cassis liqueur.

Elegant and perfumed, the palate was less persistent but still a great wine showing lighter red fruits, apple skin, earth, flowers and leather.

Another great 89

Dollar for dollar a really lovely wine. Enjoyed along side a 1995 Lynch-Bages with an oeufs en Meurette dish. Just a great all-around wine, great color, lovely nose and great mouthfeel. Displayed the elegance of St Julien. Look out for 1989s down the stack from Saint Julien for sure.

Still young!

Outstanding. Earthy and darker fruits showed up after an hour. Still opening after 3 hours in a decanter.

Plenty of power, still. Finish for days.