Château GRAND-PUY-LACOSTE 2021

Description

Jean-Marc Quarin 95 www.quarin.com
Couleur sombre et profonde. Nez très aromatique, fin, fruité et pur. Délicieux en entrée de bouche, très savoureux au milieu, avec un corps fondant, beaucoup de goût et une trame tannique raffinée, le vin caresse le palais, précis, savoureux et noble dans la persistance. Très belle longueur. Assemblage : 85 % cabernet sauvignon (la proportion la plus haute connue), 15 % merlot. Degré d’alcool : 12°95 – pH : 3,64. Rendement moyen sur la propriété : 40 hl/ha. Sélection pour le grand vin : 30 hl/ha.

Yves Beck 93-95 points www.yvesbeck.wine
La particularité du bouquet de Grand-Puy-Lacoste consiste en son aptitude à concilier intensité et finesse ! Il révèle de classiques notes de graphite complétées par des parfums de mûres, de baies rouges et de menthe. Beaucoup de finesse en bouche également avec des tannins veloutés et une structure acide juteuse. Fine douceur en fin de bouche. Un vin imposant, subtile et convaincant.  2027-2051

Neal Martin 92-94 points www.vinous.com
The 2021 Grand Puy Lacoste was picked from September 24 to October 8 at 40hL/ha, and matured in 75% new oak. There is quite a conspicuous gap between this and the Deuxième Vin this year, the Grand Vin delivering much more cohesion and fruit intensity: blackberry, tobacco, mahogany bureau and a touch of sage. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, well balanced, and predictably unapologetically classic in style. If you love GPL, then you’re going to appreciate this return to its quintessential style after three opulent vintages.

Antonio Galloni 94-96 points www.vinous.com
The 2021 Grand-Puy-Lacoste is fabulous. Bright and punchy, with terrific aromatic presence, the 2021 is a terrific example of the modern classicism of the year at its best. It’s the sort of wine that needs years or maybe even decades to truly blossom, and yet all the requisites are there for that to happen. There is something about Grand-Puy-Lacoste that is absolutely striking in 2021. I can’t wait to taste it from bottle. Tasted two times.

William Kelley 92-94+ points www.erobertparker.com
The 2021 Grand-Puy-Lacoste is a beauty, bursting with aromas of dark berries, plums, rose petals, violets, warm spices and cigar wrapper. Medium to full-bodied, supple and seamless, it’s fleshy and enveloping, with melting tannins, succulent acids and a pleasure-bent, demonstrative personality. While it’s clear that this is an irresistibly charming, satisfying Pauillac from the Borie family, it wouldn’t surprise me to see it acquire additional depth, flesh and seriousness with further barrel maturation.

Georgina Hindle 91 points  www.decanter.com (at Bordeaux, 01 Apr 2022)
Lovely classic Cabernet typicity on the palate, the green pepper, the eucalyptus, liquorice, crushed stone and such freshness and mintiness. This has power and structure, it’s clearly intense and concentrated but the tannins are so well executed. The acidity gifts lift while the other elements settle on the tongue, really pronounced, filling the mouth. This is seductive, no wallflower with satin tannins. A blockbuster of a second wine here. One of the more potent and powerful second wines but with excellent capacity to give enjoyment, screaming: ‘drink me!’. Drinking Window 2024 – 2034