Tasted at Bipin Desai's Le Pin vertical in Los Angeles. The '97 Le Pin has a pleasurable, well-defined nose with raspberry, wild strawberry and cranberry-scented nose
Neal Martin
Wine Journal May 2009
86
Le Pin's 1997 reveals an excessive amount of oak for the concentration of fruit. The wine possesses sweet currant and cherry fruit, abundant toasty oak, and a seductive style, but the oak is elevated. It will probably not last long enough for the wood to become fully integrated. Or, am I wrong about that? Anticipated maturity: now-2008.