Château Margaux 1989

Last tasted October 2022: A wine that makes you rethink the drinking horizon of great wines; there’s still plenty of primary fruit here, vibrant even if tertiary complexity is certainly developing nicely, and tannins and acids are in perfect step, harmonious. Refinement and complexity are very near the summit of the imaginable. The plate shows enormous volume but with a texture of pure silk, subtlety meets depth, unfathomable. Endless finish. A wine of sheer and intrinsic beauty. Monumental wine, drinking so well now, though the harmony should see this age gracefully another 20 or 30 years. Score – 99. (John Szabo, MS, winealign.com)