Leoville Las Cases - 1989 (750ml) Size:750ml I clearly underrated this wine

I clearly underrated this wine from barrel

Wine Spectator - 90 points

black-colored robe with dark purple trim

although I am told contracts with other growers who purchase fruit will remain in place

It has round and ripe blackberry and cassis fruit flavors

Leoville Las Cases - 1989 (750ml) Size:750ml I clearly underrated this wineDark ruby (a far less saturated color than the 1990, for example), this wine offers up a somewhat internationally styled nose of new oak and ripe black currant fruit, with a hint of mineral and graphite. The wine is a medium weight, relatively elegant style of wine without nearly the power, density, and layers of concentration that the 1990 possesses. Like so many 1989s, there is a feeling that the selection was not as strict as it could have been, or