1990 Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame Brut Champagne Jeroboam 3L

Veuve Clicquot:
A tribute to Madame Clicquot and the creative and elegant souls who have followed in her footsteps, this wine is in the image of La Grande Dame herself. For the House of Veuve Clicquot, La Grande Dame 1990 is the champagne of the millennium, launched in 1999 to inaugurate the 2000s.

Our hidden treasure. The House decided to draw prestigious magnums and jeroboams from this year endowed with exceptional sunshine.

98 Points, Natalie Earl, Decanter 
(Jeroboam) Every ounce of this 1990 Grande Dame from jeroboam was trembling with chalky tension and unleashed power. Trapped inside this large format, it has grown slowly and powerfully, emerging with great thrust and striking out on a path painted with glittering river stones, dried mushroom, flinty reduction and such saline savour.

With air it becomes spicy, with warm sunny dried fruit emerging just on the finish. There's so much concentration here, and the architecture of the wine is upright and elaborate, like a towering Corinthian column.

17.5/20 Points, Jancis Robinson, jancisrobinson.com
Orangey gold. Very rich, almost sweet! With a lot of Pinot influence. Quite creamy-textured and dense. Probably no point in keeping this. Dried out after opening but the panoply of dried-fruit aromas was pretty exciting soon after opening. (JR)