Chateau Lynch-Bages - Pauillac 2019 (750ml)
Price: $185.00
#2 Jeb Dunnuck Top 100 of 2022
| Producer | Chateau Lynch-Bages |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pauillac |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2019 |
| Sku | 1005821 |
| Size | 750ml |
Vinous: 99 Points
The 2019 Lynch Bages is every bit as magnificent from bottle as it was from barrel if not moreso. What a wine! Towering and vertical in its bearing the 2019 is a total stunner. There is plenty of Lynch Bages charm but what distinguishes the 2019 most is its spine of tannin and energy. Time in the glass brings out sweet red cherry plum blood orange and pomegranate and mint. The 2019 is a great great great Lynch Bages. It reminds me of the epic 1989 but with the youthful grip of this vintage. A towering Pauillac the 2019 Lynch Bages will make a great addition to any cellar. gic in 2019. Wow. Don't miss it!
jdJeb Dunnuck: 96-98 Points
The 2019 Château Lynch-Bages is 70% Cabernet Sauvignon 24% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot that's still resting in 75% new French oak. Offering blockbuster notes of crème de cassis burning embers violets graphite and liquid rock-like minerality it shows the more elegant style of the vintage on the palate yet builds with air revealing incredible concentration and depth of fruit loads of tannins and a mammoth-sized finish. This classic Lynch-Bages will take a decade to hit maturity but will keep for 50-60 years or more. It's not for the drink me now crowd.
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James Suckling: 97 Points
Fantastic blackberries blackcurrants lead pencil and violets. So Pauillac on the nose! Full-bodied with a dense layered palate and tight yet plush tannins that give the wine layers and gravitas. Compact. Long finish. Silky. Reminds me of a modern classic version of something like the wonderful 1985 Lynch. Try after 2026.
Wine Advocate: 96+ Points
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. Lynch-Bages' recently unveiled new winery is an imposing construction and will certainly permit precision winemaking with smaller tanks permitting parcel-by-parcel selection. And given that Lynch-Bages comprehends more or less 250 different parcels recently the subject of an in-depth soil study that will 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. Yet the old winery has delivered a compelling swan-song vintage in the form of the 2019 Lynch-Bages a superb wine that merits comparison with the likes of the 2010 and 2000 in quality (and which is closer to the latter than the former in style). It's a terrific effort from the Cazes family and their technical team.
