1989 Château Siran, Margaux

"As usual (since the 1980 vintage, anyway) the label features a work of art relevant to the year, and quite appropriately the artist chosen for 1989 was A. R. Penck (1939 – 2017), a German national born in Dresden (in what would become East Germany); his work references the fall of the Berlin Wall, which came down in 1989. This precedes a palate which feels cool and delicately silky, the filigree texture laced with veins of tobacco and crushed chalk, resting over a fine lacework of tannins which support the midpalate with a fortitude reminiscent of crumbling chalk. Dry, structured and lightly peppered in the finish, lingering well, this is a fine example of the 1989 vintage."
92 points, The Wine Doctor