1990 Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin Vintage Brut, Champagne, France

Description

• 5/31/2024 – Jd6725 Likes this wine:93 Points

  Another quite solid bottle of this wine. Aged well but holding up. A bit of an emotional connection to this wine in multiple ways. Not a ton of bubbles left but a lovely deep gold color and great aged characteristics. This was actually better than a bottle of 90 grande dame recently.

  12/25/2022 – peterk Likes this wine:96 Points

  From a magnum. VERB put it perfectly. This is wonderful, powerful, yet elegant old Champagne. Plentiful bubbles

  12/27/2020 – Jd6725 Likes this wine:94 Points

  Very pleasant surprise. Wonderful aged champagne. Great dark golden. Bit of butterscotch, but subtle. All of the positive oxidative notes with little of the negative. Very balanced. A few bubbles left.

  1/3/2020 – Verb Likes this wine:98 Points

  if you don’t love old champagne, don’t waste your time reading this note – medium gold color, no hints of orange – very fine bubbles that persisted for 1-2 hrs – beautiful old brioche nose with light to moderate oxidation, dried apples and pears, asian spices (Saigon cinnamon), and flinty minerality – full-bodied mouth with loads of very ripe apple/pear fruit, more oxidative flavors than in the nose – great acidity that provided a refreshing youthfulness to a mature champagne – longer finish than most red wines of the same age with a beautiful sweet aftertaste sans any hint of bitterness – I agree with earlier tasting notes that it combined both impressive power with delightful elegance – as much as I like La Grande Dame, I think this 90 is even more perfectly balanced (assuming that’s possible!) – sad that his was my last bottle, but it was well worth waiting for