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2018 Chateau Lynch-Bages 5eme Cru Classe, Pauillac
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An up-and-down growing season could not stop Château Lynch Bages from shining bright in 2018. Despite an unusually wet spring, the hot, dry summer led to supremely ripe fruit with below-average yields. The vibrancy of the harvest is on full display, with wine critic Jeb Dunnuck calling this Bordeaux red blend “one of the finest vintages I've ever tasted from this address.” The 2018 Château Lynch Bages features 72 cabernet sauvignon, 19 merlot, 6 cabernet franc and 3 petit verdot that aged in 75 new barriques. The inky-purple blend oozes notes of dark fruits, herbs, licorice, graphite, violets, and smoked meats. Meanwhile, fine-grained tannins glide across the palate before a refreshing minerality emerges at the finish. For patient wine collectors, don’t be surprised if this gem moves up a triple-digit rating in a decade or so. The Final Sip: For the finest example of Château Lynch Bages, look no further than the 2018 vintage.
Critics Scores
Wine Spectator
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.
James Suckling
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.
Decanter
This is hugely impressive right from the off - strap on your walking boots, get your crampons at the ready, there is a wall to climb - not one that you ever hit by the way, because contrary to expectations this unfurls slowly, keeping the peak just out of sight.
Wine Enthusiast
This vintage shows the elegant side of a typically powerful wine. It offers dense black fruits that are balanced by the stylish wood aging and bold tannins. This impressive wine is likely to age well.
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
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.
Jeb Dunnuck
Cassis, graphite, blackberries, scorched earth, and graphite notes all emerge from the 2018 Château Lynch-Bages, which is a rich, blockbuster style beauty up with the finest vintages to date from this historic estate, which by the way, is just about complete with a massive new cellar construction project. Checking in as a blend of 72 Cabernet Sauvignon, 19 Merlot, 6 Cabernet Franc, and the rest Petit Verdot, brought up in 75 new French oak, it's incredibly concentrated, opulent, and sexy on the palate, with building underlying structure, a stacked mid-palate, and a great finish. It reminds me of the 2009 with its fleshy, powerful style. The IPT, or amount of tannins, is a through the roof 95 and it hit 14.1 alcohol. Its going to live for just about forever. Barrel Sample: 96-98+