Château Lynch-Bages - Grand Cru Classé Pauillac

Château Lynch-Bages - Grand Cru Classé Pauillac

Vintage: 2015
Description: "The 2015 Lynch-Bages has a very complex bouquet with layers of blackberry and bilberry fruit, crushed stone, cedar and graphite. It becomes earthier with aeration, with a hint of cough candy in the background. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-boned tannins. This is intense, backward, almost surly, yet the finish has incredible precision and persistence. Not to be underrated. Tasted at the Lynch-Bages vertical at the château." - 96 points, Vinous "Excellent quality, but a little less depth through the mid palate than the 2014 or 2016 - making it one of the rare wines where the 2015 vintage is not beating out the 2014 in a vertical. Could simply be that it is closed down right now, as those Pauillac tannins can be pretty fierce in the early days. Certainly as it opens the texture deepens and widens,
Price: $ 195.00
Price in original currency: None

Available from VinoNueva Fine & Rare Wines


First added to 1000 Corks on September 17, 2022.