Château LYNCH-BAGES 2021

Description

Yves Beck 96-97 points www.yvesbeck.wine
Superbe bouquet, très classique, très fidèle à l’image de Lynch Bages. Fines nuances d’élevage suivies de nuances de cassis, de mûres et d’épices douces. A l’aération le vin affiche des notes mentholées ainsi qu’une touche de graphite. Le vin est friand en attaque et doté de tannins puissants, aux grains fins, ainsi que d’une structure rafraîchissante. Cette dernière étire la finale qui s’en retrouve saline et persistante. Un Lynch Bages musclé et prêt à passer du temps en cave !  2027-2055

Jean-Marc Quarin 95 www.quarin.com
Couleur sombre et profonde. Nez très aromatique, fin, au fruité pur et mûr. Moelleux en entrée de bouche, gras au milieu, puissant et savoureux, le vin glisse au palais, juteux, noble et profond. Longue persistance avec beaucoup de goût. Tannin enveloppé. Assemblage : 67 % cabernet sauvignon, 25 % merlot, 5 % petit verdot, 3 % cabernet franc. Degré d’alcool : 13°14 – pH : 3,72 – IPT : 90. Rendement : 34 hl/ha. Dates de vendanges : 27 septembre au 9 octobre. Production : 65 % de premier vin.

Neal Martin 94-96 points www.vinous.com
he 2021 Lynch-Bages, picked at 34hL/ha and matured in 75% new oak for a planned 18 months, has an outstanding bouquet, beautifully-defined and sensual, a mixture of black and blueberry fruit, very fragrant. The palate is medium-bodied with grippy tannins, good body and density, quite precise with a tensile finish. This fans out nicely on the finish. A very classy Lynch Bages with echoes of Jean-Michel Cazes’ classics from the late eighties. 13.14% alcohol.

Antonio Galloni 92-94 points www.vinous.com
The 2021 Lynch Bages is a brooding wine. Black cherry, leather, spice and menthol add to its decidedly somber personality. It will be interesting to see how the 2021 develops during élevage. Today, the 2021 comes across as dark and heavy, with the oak not fully integrated, and less of the suave finesse that is perhaps the key Lynch Bages signature.

William Kelley 93-95 points www.erobertparker.com
The second vintage vinified in the Caze family’s new winery, the 2021 Lynch-Bages unwinds in the glass with aromas of minty cassis, sweet berries, loamy soil, black truffle and cigar wrapper, framed by nicely integrated new oak. Medium to full-bodied, concentrated and muscular, it’s a serious, layered, powerful, youthfully structured wine that will come together beautifully with maturation in barrel.

Georgina Hindle 95 points  www.decanter.com (at Bordeaux, 01 Apr 2022)
Sweet blackcurrant fruit on the nose, softly jammy and expressive. You can really feel the ripeness here, grapes got full maturity and this is plush, mouthfilling and plump with chewy tannins – more opulent and perfumed than others also with more power and body. Tannins are mouthfilling and you get the stone minerality and the Cabernet freshness that really takes over giving this a sense of tension and grip. A really characterful and expressive Pauillac where the tannins and acidity perfectly compliment each other with the muscular and concentrated fruit also giving a multi-faceted dimension. 3% Cabernet Sauvignon completes the blend. 3.72pH. Ageing 75% new barrels. Drinking Window 2026 – 2048