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Château Lynch Bages - Pauillac

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94 points - The Wine Advocate
93 points - The Wine Advocate
97 points - The Wine Advocate
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Château Lynch Bages - Pauillac - 2018 - 75cl - Onshore Cellars
France Bordeaux Pauillac Château Lynch Bages

Château Lynch Bages - Pauillac

95 points - The Wine Advocate
96 points - The Wine Advocate
96 points - The Wine Advocate
94 points - The Wine Advocate
93 points - The Wine Advocate
95 points - The Wine Advocate
87 points - The Wine Advocate
90 points - The Wine Advocate
97 points - The Wine Advocate
93 points - The Wine Advocate
94 points - The Wine Advocate
94 points - The Wine Advocate
93 points - The Wine Advocate
97 points - The Wine Advocate
89 points - The Wine Advocate
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The vintage that inaugurated the estate's new state-of-the-art winery, the 2020 Lynch-Bages has turned out very nicely, offering up aromas of crème de cassis and blackberries mingled with notions of pencil shavings, spices and classy new oak. Medium to full-bodied, deep and layered, with good concentration, ripe, powdery tannins and a seamless, integrated profile for such a young Lynch-Bages, it shows considerable promise. The blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc and 5% Petit Verdot incorporates more Merlot than usual, reflecting relative yields in the vintage more than any stylistic shift. Lynch-Bages's new winery came into effect for the 2020 vintage, permitting precision winemaking, with smaller tanks for parcel-by-parcel selection. And given that Lynch-Bages comprehends more or less 250 different parcels that were recently the subject of an in-depth soil study, that must be a real advantage. The same studies, incidentally, are informing work in the vineyards, with parcels cultivated differently depending on their properties, and organic trials are underway in holdings near dwellings. If the 2020 exhibits a touch more polish than might have been the case in a year like this in the past, however, Lynch-Bages's DNA remains unchanged, delivering robust, dark-fruited wines, carrying a generous patina of new oak in their youth but which age with remarkable consistency.
A true classic from this estate, the 2019 Lynch-Bages has turned out brilliantly, unwinding in the glass with aromas of cassis and sweet blackberry fruit mingled with licorice, mint, cigar wrapper and loamy soil. Full-bodied, rich and concentrated, it's a deep, multidimensional wine built around a chassis of rich, powdery tannins and succulent balancing acids. The last vintage produced in Lynch-Bages old winery, it will be interesting to compare this benchmark wine with subsequent vintages over the coming years.
Deep garnet-purple in color, it soars out of the glass with a magnificently expressive nose of blueberry compote, black cherry preserves and blackcurrant pastilles, plus suggestions of dark chocolate, licorice, tar and violets with a waft of hoisin. The medium to full-bodied palate is just as impactful as the nose, coating the mouth with juicy black berry and spicy layers, supported by firm, grainy tannins and seamless freshness, finishing long with a refreshing earthiness coming through at the end.
Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2017 Lynch Bages sashays out of the glass with flamboyant scents of baked blackcurrants, blackberry preserves and mulberries plus touches of lavender, dark chocolate, star anise and unsmoked cigars. Medium to full-bodied, the palate has bags of class and finesse with firm, finely-grained tannins and seamless freshness, finishing long and fragrant.

Château Lynch Bages is a renowned winery located in the Pauillac appellation of Bordeaux, France. The estate has a rich history dating back to the 18th century when it was owned by the Lynch family. In 1934, it was purchased by Jean-Charles Cazes and has remained in the Cazes family ever since.

The vineyards of Château Lynch Bages cover 100 hectares and are planted with a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot. The grapes are hand-harvested and sorted before being fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks. The wine is then aged in oak barrels for 12-18 months before being bottled.

The style of wine produced by Château Lynch Bages is classic Bordeaux, with a focus on elegance and balance. The wine is known for its deep ruby color, complex aromas of blackcurrant, cedar, and tobacco, and a long, smooth finish. The tannins are firm but well-integrated, giving the wine structure and aging potential.

Château Lynch Bages produces several different wines, including the Grand Vin, which is the flagship wine of the estate. The Grand Vin is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot, and is aged in oak barrels for 18 months. The estate also produces a second wine, called Echo de Lynch Bages, which is made from younger vines and is aged for 12 months in oak barrels. In addition, Château Lynch Bages produces a white wine called Blanc de Lynch Bages, which is a blend of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon.

Overall, Château Lynch Bages is a producer of exceptional Bordeaux wines that are highly sought after by wine collectors and enthusiasts around the world. The estate's commitment to quality and tradition has earned it a reputation as one of the finest wineries in the region.

Medium to deep garnet-purple in color, the 2015 Lynch Bages offers up crushed black berries, black cherries and dried herbs with an earthy undercurrent. The medium-bodied palate is firm and taut with lively fruit and a chewy finish.
The 2014 Lynch-Bages is full of promise, offering up a classic bouquet of rich but vibrant blackcurrant fruit mingled with with hints of loamy soil, cedar and vanilla pod. Full-bodied, deep and layered, with an abundance of ripe but youthfully assertive tannin, lively acids and a long, resonant finish, it will hit its stride in 10 to 15 years. This is an excellent Lynch-Bages that represents especially good value in the contemporary marketplace.
The 2012 Lynch-Bages is deep ruby/purple with tell-tale cassis notes. Medium-bodied, but somewhat foursquare and monolithic, it has well above average concentration, impressive purity and nicely integrated tannins and wood. Nevertheless, there is something bland and one-dimensional about Lynch-Bages in 2012, making it somewhat of a disappointment. Drink it over the next 12-15 years.
The medium-bodied 2011 Lynch Bages possesses a saturated ruby/purple color as well as beautiful creme de cassis notes, a generous, concentrated, well-made, medium to full-bodied style and supple tannins. A successful effort in 2011, it should be drinkable in 3-4 years and last for 15+. It is a sleeper of the vintage.
Still a saturated ruby-black in hue, the 2010 Lynch-Bages offers up aromas of rich cassis fruit mingled with hints of pencil shavings, loamy soil and cigar wrapper. Full-bodied, deep and muscular, it's rich and layered, with a concentrated core of fruit that's framed by firm, powdery tannins and lively acids. The most brooding, backward Lynch-Bages of the decade and one of the real successes of the vintage, this is a vibrant, tightly wound wine that is still an infant at age 10. Readers with bottles in their cellars might try one now out of curiosity, but this 2010 won't begin to hit its stride until age 20.

Château Lynch Bages is a renowned winery located in the Pauillac appellation of Bordeaux, France. The estate has a rich history dating back to the 18th century when it was owned by the Lynch family. In 1934, it was purchased by Jean-Charles Cazes and has remained in the Cazes family ever since.

The vineyards of Château Lynch Bages cover 100 hectares and are planted with a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot. The grapes are hand-harvested and sorted before being fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks. The wine is then aged in oak barrels for 12-18 months before being bottled.

The style of wine produced by Château Lynch Bages is classic Bordeaux, with a focus on elegance and balance. The wine is known for its deep ruby color, complex aromas of blackcurrant, cedar, and tobacco, and a long, smooth finish. The tannins are firm but well-integrated, giving the wine structure and aging potential.

Château Lynch Bages produces several different wines, including the Grand Vin, which is the flagship wine of the estate. The Grand Vin is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot, and is aged in oak barrels for 18 months. The estate also produces a second wine, called Echo de Lynch Bages, which is made from younger vines and is aged for 12 months in oak barrels. In addition, Château Lynch Bages produces a white wine called Blanc de Lynch Bages, which is a blend of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon.

Overall, Château Lynch Bages is a producer of exceptional Bordeaux wines that are highly sought after by wine collectors and enthusiasts around the world. The estate's commitment to quality and tradition has earned it a reputation as one of the finest wineries in the region.

Château Lynch Bages is a renowned winery located in the Pauillac appellation of Bordeaux, France. The estate has a rich history dating back to the 18th century when it was owned by the Lynch family. In 1934, it was purchased by Jean-Charles Cazes and has remained in the Cazes family ever since.

The vineyards of Château Lynch Bages cover 100 hectares and are planted with a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot. The grapes are hand-harvested and sorted before being fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks. The wine is then aged in oak barrels for 12-18 months before being bottled.

The style of wine produced by Château Lynch Bages is classic Bordeaux, with a focus on elegance and balance. The wine is known for its deep ruby color, complex aromas of blackcurrant, cedar, and tobacco, and a long, smooth finish. The tannins are firm but well-integrated, giving the wine structure and aging potential.

Château Lynch Bages produces several different wines, including the Grand Vin, which is the flagship wine of the estate. The Grand Vin is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot, and is aged in oak barrels for 18 months. The estate also produces a second wine, called Echo de Lynch Bages, which is made from younger vines and is aged for 12 months in oak barrels. In addition, Château Lynch Bages produces a white wine called Blanc de Lynch Bages, which is a blend of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon.

Overall, Château Lynch Bages is a producer of exceptional Bordeaux wines that are highly sought after by wine collectors and enthusiasts around the world. The estate's commitment to quality and tradition has earned it a reputation as one of the finest wineries in the region.

The 2006 Château Lynch Bages has another quite vivacious bouquet with lively black cherries, kirsch and wild mint aromas that do not hold back. I love the purity here. The palate is medium-bodied with fine supple tannin, well-judged acidity, a gentle grip in the mouth, and plenty of lightly spiced and surprisingly intense fruit on the bravura finish. The Cazes family oversaw a very sophisticated Lynch-Bages in this vintage that may well surpass many peoples' expectations.
As one might suspect, the dense purple-hued 2005 is still tannic, firm and young, with concentrated blackberry and cassis fruit, beautiful ripeness, a full-bodied mouthfeel and undeniable youthfulness. Tasting like a 2-3 year old wine rather one that has passed its sixth birthday, it is potentially one of the longest lived Lynch Bages since the remarkable 1989 and 2000.
The 2004 Château Lynch-Bages is a refined and classic Pauillac, showing ripe blackcurrant, cedar, and subtle tobacco on the nose. The palate is medium-bodied with smooth, integrated tannins and notes of cassis, graphite, and forest floor. Elegant and balanced, it finishes with freshness and quiet complexity, reflecting the vintage’s restrained charm and the estate’s signature structure.
A healthy, youthful dark plum/ruby/purple color is followed by a bouquet of smoke, barbecued meats, black currants and new saddle leather. With full body and sweet tannin, this 2003 is strutting its stuff. Although it is not as fine as the 1989, 1990, or 2000, it is a complex, classic Pauillac to enjoy over the next decade.
The 2002 Lynch-Bages is showing brilliantly, after a four-hour double decant, wafting from the glass with an utterly classic nose of cassis and loamy soil mingled with hints of cedar and oak vanillin. Medium to full-bodied, concentrated and layered, with plenty of rich, powdery tannins and lively acids, as its structure begins to melt, the wine's depth and length is becoming more and more apparent. Like the best examples of this vintage, the 2002 Lynch-Bages has proven a real sleeper.
Beginning to open magnificently, the still dense purple-colored 2000 reveals a blossoming bouquet of blackberries, cassis, graphite and pen ink. Full-bodied with velvety tannins that have resolved themselves beautifully over the last eleven years, this wine is still an adolescent, but it exhibits admirable purity, texture, mouthfeel and power combined with elegance. One of the all-time great examples of Lynch Bages, the 2000 is just beginning to drink well yet promises to last for another 20-25+ years.
Slightly austere, leafy and herbal, the fresh 1998 lacks concentration, fat and fruit depth. It reveals a hint of herbs interwoven with attractive red and black currant aromas, but the wine falls off on the palate, and requires drinking up as it is likely to become increasingly desiccated.
Type:
 Red
Country:
 France
Region:
 Bordeaux
Appellation:
 Pauillac
Producer:
 Château Lynch Bages
Grapes/Blend:
 Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot
Serving temp:
 16° - 18° C
ABV:
 13%
Pairing Sugesstions:
 Beef, Lamb, Game Birds, Charcuterie and Cured Meats, Blue Cheese

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Bordeaux, in the southwest of France, needs little introduction as one of the world's most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90...
Bordeaux, in the southwest of France, needs little introduction as one of the world's most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90 percent of production volume) are the dry, medium- and full-bodied red Bordeaux Blends that established its reputation.

The finest (and most expensive) of these are the wines from the great châteaux of the Haut-Médoc and the Right Bank appellations Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The former is focused (at the top level) on Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter pair on on Merlot.

The legendary reds are complemented by high-quality white wines based on Sémillon and Sauvignon Blanc. These range from dry whites to challenge the best from the Burgundy region (Pessac-Léognan is particularly renowned) to the sweet, botrytized nectars of Sauternes.
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Pauillac

Pauillac

Pauillac is a wine appellation located in the Médoc region of Bordeaux, France. It is known for producing some of the finest red wines in the world, with...

Pauillac is a wine appellation located in the Médoc region of Bordeaux, France. It is known for producing some of the finest red wines in the world, with a reputation for elegance, complexity, and longevity. Pauillac is home to some of the most famous châteaux in Bordeaux, including Château Lafite Rothschild, Château Latour, and Château Mouton Rothschild.

The history of winemaking in Pauillac dates back to the Roman era, but it was not until the 17th century that the region began to gain recognition for its wines. The Dutch were the first to recognize the potential of Pauillac wines, and they began importing them to their home country in large quantities. In the 18th century, Pauillac wines became popular in England, and they were soon being exported to other parts of Europe and the world.

The style of production in Pauillac is traditional, with a focus on quality over quantity. The vineyards are planted on gravelly soils, which provide excellent drainage and reflect the heat back onto the vines, helping to ripen the grapes. The grapes grown in Pauillac are predominantly Cabernet Sauvignon, with smaller amounts of Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot. The wines are typically aged in oak barrels for 18-24 months, which adds complexity and depth to the final product.

The typical wines from Pauillac are full-bodied, with intense aromas of blackcurrant, blackberry, and cedar. They are known for their firm tannins, which give the wines structure and longevity. Pauillac wines are often described as having a "pencil lead" or "graphite" character, which is a result of the gravelly soils in which the grapes are grown. The wines are also known for their ability to age gracefully, with some of the best vintages lasting for decades.

In conclusion, Pauillac is a wine appellation with a rich history and a reputation for producing some of the finest red wines in the world. The traditional style of production, the gravelly soils, and the focus on quality over quantity all contribute to the unique character of Pauillac wines. If you are looking for a wine with elegance, complexity, and longevity, look no further than Pauillac.

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