Château Lynch-Bages 2019

Jeb Dunnuck
The 2019 Château Lynch-Bages is stunningly good, and it's going to be interesting to compare this to the 2018 over the coming decades. Based on 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot, and the balance Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot, brought up in 75% new French oak, its dense purple hue is followed by an incredible bouquet of pure crème de cassis, freshly sharpened cedar pencil, spring flowers, smoke, and graphite, with an almost liqueur of rocks-like minerality. A massive, incredibly concentrated Lynch-Bages, Jean-Charles has hit a home run in the vintage, and this sensational wine has building, perfect tannins, insane purity, and a finish that won't quit. It has the purity, finesse, balance, and depth to offer pleasure not only today but to evolve for 40 to 50 years. Smart money will hide these for a good 7-8 years, but wow, what a wine. Bravo.

Vinous
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.

Robert Parker
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

Château Lynch-Bages har sin oprindelse i det 18. århundrede og har gennem tiden udviklet sig til et af de mest respekterede slotte i Bordeaux. Slottet ligger i kommunen Pauillac i Médoc og blev navngivet efter Thomas Lynch, en irsk-fransk handelsmand, hvis familie ejede ejendommen i midten af 1700-tallet. Navnet kombinerer familiens efternavn med navnet på landsbyen Bages, hvor slottet stadig ligger i dag.

Ejendommen blev klassificeret som 5. Cru i 1855, men har siden vundet ry for at levere vine, der ofte overgår sin officielle placering i kvalitet og omdømme. I 1939 blev Château Lynch-Bages overtaget af Jean-Charles Cazes, og det er stadig familien Cazes, der driver slottet med stor omhu og ambition. Under familiens ledelse er både vinmarkerne og produktionsfaciliteterne blevet moderniseret, samtidig med at man har fastholdt en stærk forankring i traditionel Pauillac-stil.

Slottets vine er kendt for deres kraftfulde struktur, dybde og lagringspotentiale, og de repræsenterer på mange måder essensen af klassisk Médoc. Gennem årtier har Lynch-Bages opbygget en international tilhængerskare og markeret sig som en af de mest stabile og respekterede producenter i Bordeaux – med en historie, der afspejles i vinens karakter og udvikling.