Château Lynch Bages 2018

£528.00

IN BOND

Delivery 2021

Appellation - Pauillac

Owner - Cazes family

72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot

Second wine – Echo de Lynch Bages

Annual production – 450,000 bottles

Tasting notes
The 2018 Lynch Bages is made up of 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot aging in 75% new barriques. Very deep purple-black in color, the nose is quite coy and restrained to begin, fanning out to offer pure, ripe blackcurrants, black cherries and preserved plums with wafts of red roses, cigar box, incense, cardamom and fenugreek with savory touches of black olives, Marmite toast and smoked meats. Full-bodied, the palate is built like a brick house, with a solid foundation of very firm, very ripe, grainy tannins and superb freshness supporting the generous black fruit layers, finishing long with provocative ferrous suggestions.
Score: 96/98 Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate (April 2019), April 2019

 

This is incredibly powerful and structured with so much tannin backbone and length, yet it’s cool and fresh with a compact palate and great length. Muscular.

Score: 97/98 James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com, April 2019

 

Dark cassis, plum and cherry fruit flavors stream through in this red, harnessed well by bolts of iron along the way. Sweet tobacco detail echoes through the finish, which is seriously long. An extremely rock-solid wine in the making here.

Score: 96/99 James Molesworth, Wine Spectator, March 2019

 

(72 Cabernet Sauvignon, 19 Merlot, 6 Cabernet Franc, 3 Petit Verdot) | 75% new oak for 18 months | 14 alc | 95 IPT A stunning Cabernet nose leads the way and this signals the start of a rather imposing wine. Exquisite fruit concentration coupled with prodigious length make this a bit of a beast and I found myself searching for detail among the power and extraction. Big and just about balanced with rather racy tannins and a lot of oak, this is a monolithic Lynch Bages and I hope that it starts to unravel soon for fear that it will always be a little bit too muscular and tough.

Score: 18+ Matthew Jukes, MatthewJukes.com, April 2019

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