My wife and I recently had our annual bottle, to celebrate our anniversary (15th this year), of the 1989 Ch. Lynch Bages.
This wine is aging at a glacial pace. My wine closet is relatively warm, 60 degrees F, so those of you holding this in cooler storage should be working on extending your life span it you intend to drink this wine at its peak.
Color: Still very dark with just hint of reddish mahogany at the rim. It completly blocked all light from a 75W halogen lamp about a foot from the glass. That is, it remains the "black wine in the lunch bag." Interestingly, the wine has deposited almost no sediment.
Nose: Still somewhat restrained. Some pencil shavings, but the brooding power is evident.
On the palate. Enormously mouthfilling with largely cassis flavor, with just hints of spiciness and cedar. Still quite tannic, but considerably more accessible than a couple of years ago. The finish is mostly tea and leather.
The wine was still pretty tight a day later (left one glass in the bottle overnight).
Given the slow evolution of the wine, I am contemplating moving to opening a bottle every other year, rather than each year.
Cheers to all.
Marc