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Château Le Tertre Rôteboeuf Saint-Émilion Red Bordeaux Blend 1990
An absolutely spectacular Tertre Roteboeuf, probably the only other vintage that will reach this level of quality is the 2000. The 1990 has a deep plum/ruby color with some lightening at the edge and an extraordinarily flamboyant nose of jammy black cherry and berry fruit infused with smoke, caramel, and coffee notes that soar from the glass. This is a very viscous, full-bodied, silky textured wine has a to-die-for finish and enough glycerin and body to get lost. It is just entering its plateau of full maturity. A wow-wow wine! Robert Parker
Ratings on Delectable
Mike Saviage 
Tasted blind. Deep, dark amber tinged and tawny color. Hits me immediately as a gravel-influenced Bordeaux and I’m am in Graves with my guess. Notes of tobacco, graphite, ash, earth and gravel stone. Big shoulders, and a little hot. Yet silky in the mouth. I guess 82 La Mish HB. This has plenty of life in front of it, but give it 5+ hrs of air if consuming in the near term as the provider of this wine did.
Tasted blind. Deep, dark amber tinged and tawny color. Hits me immediately as a gravel-influenced Bordeaux and I’m am in Graves with my guess. Notes of tobacco, graphite, ash, earth and gravel stone. Big shoulders, and a little hot. Yet silky in the mouth. I guess 82 La Mish HB. This has plenty of life in front of it, but give it 5+ hrs of air if consuming in the near term as the provider of this wine did.
9.5
Chris McClellan
Oldest of the wines this nite...red to a brick/brown rim, slightly cloudy...very little if any fruit left which was a little disappointing...all tertiary, earth, mushroom, toast, fig, but a slight sweet vanilla, quite complex.
Oldest of the wines this nite...red to a brick/brown rim, slightly cloudy...very little if any fruit left which was a little disappointing...all tertiary, earth, mushroom, toast, fig, but a slight sweet vanilla, quite complex.
9.2Mike Saviage
Tasted blind. Similar descriptors for this wine sitting next to the 82 LLC. Bright fruit. Earthy. Wow factor with puckering acidity going up against a strong core of fruit. Also very young in its journey. Needs a few more decades to acquire some complexity and secondary/tertiary characteristics. Also 94+
Tasted blind. Similar descriptors for this wine sitting next to the 82 LLC. Bright fruit. Earthy. Wow factor with puckering acidity going up against a strong core of fruit. Also very young in its journey. Needs a few more decades to acquire some complexity and secondary/tertiary characteristics. Also 94+
9.4
Robert Cunningham
Wine Educator DeVinimus, Wine Workshop
Awful wine.
Awful wine.
6.6
Ron Siegel
Ripe red & black fruits, graphite, earth, leather, savory spices, tobacco & cigar ash
Ripe red & black fruits, graphite, earth, leather, savory spices, tobacco & cigar ash
9.3Sylvain Rhainds
1990. Il etait magique. Vin de la soiree!!! Wow. Il etait un 1er cru ce soir.
1990. Il etait magique. Vin de la soiree!!! Wow. Il etait un 1er cru ce soir.
9.6
Benoit Duhamel
En mémoire d’Yvan...
En mémoire d’Yvan...
9.5
Jean-Francois Pelletier
Nice aged Bordeaux. Slight browning at the rim. Garnet color. Pencil lead, sour cherries and leather. Full body, and long finish. In a great place.
Nice aged Bordeaux. Slight browning at the rim. Garnet color. Pencil lead, sour cherries and leather. Full body, and long finish. In a great place.
9.3
E & K G
This really brings out the best of merlot. Still some youth and this bottle was clean and pure and showing just the right amount of age.
This really brings out the best of merlot. Still some youth and this bottle was clean and pure and showing just the right amount of age.
9.3Jean-Francois Pelletier
Dark Ruby with slight orange rim. Full body, very complex, dark berries, leather and underbrush. Long finish. Fantastic. In a great place.
Dark Ruby with slight orange rim. Full body, very complex, dark berries, leather and underbrush. Long finish. Fantastic. In a great place.
9.4
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