The 1990 Passito di Pantelleria Ben Ryé opens to a dark amber color and shows a rich and thick consistency overall. Technically, this vintage has slightly less residual sugar compared to 1989, but you tend to feel it more here. This wine is slightly flatter and heavier in texture. The bouquet is layered and deep with dried fruit, almond cookies, mint and licorice followed by autumnal aromas of earth and wild porcino mushroom. There's even an interesting note that recalls dried meat or bresaola that I did not find in the other wine presented in this vertical.