My last bottle - I had my second last bottle in the Spring of this year and wasn't impressed with it so figured it was in decline, but this bottle was night and day better. Nice mature Bordeaux with mostly red fruit and cedar notes, rather than oak, a bit of forest floor at the end and a medium length finish. Far better showing than the previous bottle.
I bought a fair bit of the trio of 1989 (a classic claret vintage) 1989 (a riper fruit forward vintage) and 1990 a new style big sweet fruit style that brought the new world more to mind. It was a marvelous trio that I have seen characterized as zero Parker influence (88), a fair bit of Parkerization (89) and totally Parkerized (90) but I don't find that correct nor useful. The differences in the vintages were influenced much more by climate in a given year than any wine critic, although I am sure that sales volumes were affected, with RP touting the 1990 vintage highly resulting in more sales and higher prices.