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Taster #0912
· Mar 7, 2026
94/100
Gorgeous spice and exotic black cherry aromas. Palate is still youthful and fresh carrying the now mature, ripe fruit with grace. Intensely spice. Late peak drinking.
1990 vintage
Taster #9875
· Nov 5, 2025
92/100
03201/5518. Dusty with ripe dark fruit, good weight, a much more Nuits than Vosne Boudots in a simple showing. Somewhat uninspiring. Some of these 90s opened have been disappointing recently. 92
1990 vintage
Taster #0905
· Oct 15, 2025
93/100
Sweet and pretty. Showing good life left and still fairly primary. Not a blockbuster but just a lovely example of premier cru burgundy still showing nicely at 35 years. If I had more, I’d want to drink them up now
1990 vintage
Taster #0925
· Aug 17, 2025
92/100
not quite at the level one expects from Leroy. The nose offers classic Boudots spice—dark cherry, earth, and a touch of sous-bois—wrapped in gentle secondary notes of leather and dried flowers. On the palate, it’s elegant and resolved, but a shade lighter than expected, lacking the concentration and sappy depth that are usually hallmarks
1990 vintage
Taster #5830
· Mar 24, 2024
Not a lot going on with this bottle. Good, no flaws, just hard to correlate it to reputation and price.
1990 vintage
Taster #4443
· Jul 22, 2022
94/100
Birthday Dinner with Wine Legends (Oriole) : Black cherry, plum, and berry accompanied by a massive baking spicebox. Rich and opulent, yet this easily manages to seem wonderfully fresh for a ripe vintage wine at this age. Great now and for years to come. I could have easily mistake this for a Vosne-Romanée Grand Cru.
1990 vintage
Taster #1528
· Oct 3, 2020
94/100
1990 Leroy’s .. Vosne Romanee Beaux Monts, Nuits Saint George Les Boudots, Pommard Les Vignots and Savigny Les Beaune Les Narbatons (Bottle 3785/5518) Second time with this wonderful wine in two months. Double decanted at 4:00 alongside the SLB and what a contrast, clearly a tighter, darker, broodier wine. By 8:00 this started to show its sexy, plummy, earthy soul. Larger scaled and richer than the Narbatons and with more gravitas than the Vignots while a step behind Beaux Monts’ …
1990 vintage
Taster #1528
· Aug 19, 2020
94/100
(Bottle 2706/5518) Paired with Leroy 1990 Vosne Romanee Beaux Monts..... A treat to have these two side by side. The Beaux Monts was strikingly young, tight and packed with red fruit, Vosne spice. Fine tannins, impressive mid palate, lovely texture, balance and finish. The Boudots was more mature, with darker fruits and a touch of earthiness. Hard to believe these are 30 year old premier crus
1990 vintage
Taster #2393
· Feb 3, 2019
2nd Annual Sommelier Appreciation Dinner (Undisclosed Location) : Some raisining here. Either not a good bottle or not a good wine. (Did the fruit get roasted in the cellar or the vineyard?)
1990 vintage
Taster #4899
· Feb 3, 2019
92/100
Sommelier Appreciation Dinner 2019 (The Brown Residence) : Medium expressive nose displaying ripe roasted dark fruit of the 90 vintage, a hint of rose and earth. Excellent concentration, dense ripe black fruit, medium acidity, still a hint of tannins and a medium long finish. Although enjoyable, there is nothing special about the wine and absolutely not worth the current auction price.
1990 vintage
Taster #2263
· Jul 13, 2018
93/100
Dark-berry and rose petal. Like Burghound's note, it feels like a cab. 'rustic big bodied and robust flavor' Leroy perfume and stem character Oriental spice, gamey, meaty Excellent textured and good acidity It was large in scale and well balanced like Grand Cru, but felt a little lack of focus. I still feel very young and a little bit rough.
1990 vintage
Taster #0242
· Apr 7, 2018
93/100
Tasted blind, this wine had a deep red center with a light puce rim. The medium+ intensity nose showed toasty oak, cherries, black soil, and plums. In the mouth, this wine was medium bodied with firm acidty, notable rounded tannin, and great richness. It tasted almost like an Italian wine at first in that it was so exotic, intense, and structured. However, it did develop nicely with air but never was able to shake the excess of toast. I am …
1990 vintage
Taster #3883
· Mar 6, 2018
92/100
No change from last December
1990 vintage
Taster #3883
· Jan 1, 2018
93/100
Christmas dinner with roast Scottish Pheasant and Cumberland sauce. Amber rim; dark fruit; chocolate; lush and lingering. Drink now and for 5 more years.
1990 vintage
Taster #2107
· Dec 15, 2017
Served blind, I guessed '98 from the abundant sauvage. Fortunately plenty of fruit to balance. Enjoyable wine, suffered from palate fatigue by this point would like to try again sometime.
1990 vintage
Taster #6862
· Feb 7, 2017
93/100
Only one lieu-dit separated from La Tâche yet a distinctly more vegetal character evident with spicy aromas of cumin seed, green peppers and dried porcini. Surprisingly fresh tannins, acidity and minerality on the palate. Nose opened with burnt copper but settled to a lush bouquet of red berries, cherry liqueur and rose oil.
1990 vintage
Taster #4443
· Dec 24, 2016
94/100
Wine Lunch Before Christmas (Happ Inn - Northfield IL) : Black cherry and berry with some faint red cherry hints. Lots and lots of spice with classic Leroy perfumed charm. Very rich opulent, and powerful while incredibly fresh for a 25+ yo wine. What a treat, thanks, Ken!
1990 vintage
Taster #1078
· Jul 19, 2015
93/100
Bottle 502 of 572. Classic dark and extracted Leroy nose, though there isn't as much dirt as I'd like there to be, or as much as I'd expect from a Nuits. This is more focussed on ripe dark fruit with a slightly herbal and high-toned edge. The palate is quite round and fat, and showing a lot of the same ripe fruit character. Decent acidity keeps this from becoming too much of a blob. The tannins are still there, but …
1990 vintage
Taster #2876
· Nov 9, 2014
94/100
Lovely nose of dried roses, cherry, some spice and a sweet note that came a across as confectioners sugar. Very perfumed. Bright and forward on the palate with excellent detail. Nice grip on the slightly dry finish.
1990 vintage
Taster #5830
· Aug 10, 2014
Favre 3.0 Friday Night. : This was really good, and surprised on the upside.
1990 vintage
Taster #4899
· Jun 3, 2014
92/100
Burgundy dinner – 90 Krug, Raveneau, Leroy, M. Gibourg, Truchot, H Lignier and etc. (The Grill Room at Capella Hotel Georgetown) : Jammy dark fruit driven nose, dark cherries, blackberry jelly, violet, noticeable Asian spices, ginseng and mint. Exceptional concentration as expected from the 90 Leroy, jammy dark fruit driven palate impression and noticeable structure. It is a bit monolithic despite showing a hint of vosne nose a la Asian spices. Perhaps still need more time. I think this is …
1990 vintage
Taster #5401
· May 18, 2013
92/100
Chicago Berserkerfest; 5/18/2013-5/19/2013 (Chicago, IL) : Sweet cherry and dusty floral notes are elegant and precise. One of the finer Boudots of the evening.
1990 vintage
Taster #4443
· May 18, 2013
94/100
Chicago Berserkerfest Dinner #2 (Sun Wah) : Very large scaled black fruit aromas with robust spice. Mostly sweet black cherry, some red cherry hints, still vibrant and fresh on palate. A little monolithic today, but i expect more charm to emerge with more time in the cellar, given lots of supporting structure throughout.
1990 vintage
Taster #8052
· Jul 2, 2011
Nice performance but nothing exciting. Good muscular NSG performance, meaty and masculine. Not fantastic but very enjoyable.
1990 vintage
Taster #8052
· Apr 23, 2011
91/100
The combination of the vintage, the vineyard and the producer is a recipe for sucess. Powerful in Burgundian terms, earthy, with notes of black licorice and blackberry. Although the color was deep all the way to the rim, the slight dryness on the finish and totally integrated tannins makes me believe this wine is not only totally mature, but should be drunk sooner rather than later.
1990 vintage
Taster #6440
· Nov 28, 2010
91/100
Dark core with amber rim. Sous bois, mushrooms with spice on the nose. Nicely balanced. More tannic and rustic than the others. Lacked fruit on the palate
1990 vintage