Red Burgundy: Highlights from the 1990s

The life of a wine can surprise us. Like people, a bottle of wine can go through phases of tasting extraordinary, open, and vibrant. At other times, the same wine from a different bottle can be quiet, closed-off, or unexciting. This is part of what makes tasting vintages from the 1990s today so interesting. They have had three decades to evolve into the predictions made from their infancy. Another thing — great, mature red Burgundy typically does not taste as old as it is. It can fool you, blind, because the best examples have ample density, structure, and complexity to truly improve with time. Couple a great vintage with a top vineyard and producer, and red Burgundy can unfold into something truly spectacular.