chateau grand puy lacoste 5eme cru classe pauillac

Château Grand Puy Lacoste, 5ème Cru Classé, Pauillac, 2019

Name: Château Grand Puy Lacoste, 5ème Cru Classé, Pauillac
Brand: Château Grand Puy Lacoste
Price: 383.12 GBP

96/100

Inside Bordeaux

96/100

The Wine Independent

97/100

Vinous

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2019
6x75cl
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£383.12

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

A blend of 83% Cabernet Sauvignon and 17% Merlot, this is one classy GPL, which we think looks like a modern day, sweeter fruited 1996. There’s such a wonderful bouquet of pure raspberry, sumptuous griotte, meadow flowers and sandalwood. The palate is slightly glossier and more velour in texture than normal - it gives the impression of a more luxuriant GPL, but under that veneer, there is a real seam of classicism: gravelly black fruit and minerals, leafy cassis, interspersed with red cherry and cranberries; it’s very serious and complete, powerful, yet graceful, ripe, but taut, fruity, still deeply mineral. This is a picture of poise and elegance, framed by elaborate tannins, which paint a fine weave of detail on the magnificent finish. We are in no doubt, this is a superb Grand Puy Lacoste that ranks amongst the very best vintages we’ve tasted during Xavier’s career. This is a ‘must-buy’ wine in 2019!

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Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

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Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

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Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

96/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

A blend of 83% Cabernet Sauvignon and 17% Merlot, the 2019 Grand-Puy-Lacoste is deep garnet-purple in color. It offers up fragrant notes of lilacs, licorice, and dark chocolate over a core of blackcurrant jelly and blackberry pie. The medium to full-bodied palate is an exercise in elegance, with lovely freshness and fine-grained tannins, finishing long and perfumed.

drinking window 2025 - 2043

date of review 05/2023

97/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2019 Grand-Puy-Lacoste has a well-defined bouquet with cedar and graphite infused black fruit, hints of pencil shavings, controlled and refined. The palate is medium-bodied with filigree tannins, taut and fresh with a pixelated and mineral-driven finish, lingering long in the mouth. What a heavenly 2019 Pauillac. Tasted blind at the Southwold annual tasting.

drinking window 2026 - 2060

date of review 02/2023

96/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

Inky and glass-staining damson colour, with enjoyable aromatics, slow building power that is tempered and softened by waves of violet and peony. Knitted down, muscular tannins build a wall around the black fruits. This is concentrated, signature Pauillac just as it was En Primeur, majoring on pencil lead, cloves, liquorice and cocoa bean. 41hl/h yield, 75% new oak.

drinking window 2028 - 2050

date of review 01/2022

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Specifications

Country:

France

Region:

Bordeaux

Appellation:

Pauillac

Producer:

Château Grand Puy Lacoste

style:

Red Wine

Grape Variety:

Cab Sauvignon Merlot

abv:

14.5%

allergen information

This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.