For years this was a very big and firmly structured wine yet time has worked its magic and the '93 Brûlées has arrived at its peak. An intensely spicy and now almost entirely secondary fruit nose (though with no tertiary aromas) introduces rich, delicious and velvety medium-bodied flavors that possess outstanding depth and splendid length. This is still a very concentrated and markedly powerful wine that displays a bit of unresolved tannins yet the complexity is so impressive that to my taste there is no point in holding it further though like the '95, neither is there a need to rush to drink up. Note that I have had this wine quite number of times with mostly consistent results save for one bottle that had traces of lactic on the nose and another that displayed enough brett to be bothersome. - BH
BH94
Saturated, youthful medium red. High-pitched aromas of red raspberry, blackberry, violet, mint and pine cone. Tightly wound, powerfully fruity and extremely young--almost '96-like--in its primary character but with a mintiness I did not find in that wine. With aeration, smoky red fruits and minerals emerge to carry through a very long, rising finish. Jean-Nicolas Meo told me that mildew and high acidity were issues in 1993 but not rot. Remarkably vibrant and short of its peak at nearly 20 years of age. - VM
VM93+
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