chateau grand puy lacoste 5eme cru classe pauillac

Château Grand Puy Lacoste, 5ème Cru Classé, Pauillac, 2020

Name: Château Grand Puy Lacoste, 5ème Cru Classé, Pauillac
Brand: Château Grand Puy Lacoste
Price: 398.33 GBP

93/100

The Wine Independent

97/100

Vinous

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2020
6x75cl
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£386.33
2020
1.5L
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£132.78
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£398.33

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Emeline Borie describes 2020 as a more “classical in style” than 2018 and 2019. There isn’t any of the flamboyance that we’ve witnessed in the preceding two vintages. This is back to classical lines, structure and refinement. The grand vin is produced from 76% Cabernet Sauvignon and 24% Merlot from yields of just 31hL/ha. Initially this is quite reticent, the bouquet is tightly coiled refusing to reveal itself. With aeration one gets a glimpse at the potential aromatic profile: bright cherry, spices and gentle potpourri. The palate is much more expressive at this nascent stage. Pure, ripe, refined and very detailed, this is wonderfully floral with waves of expressive, silky cassis interplaying with starry crimson fruit and darker, brooding mulberry notes. This feels polished, yet classical, there’s no sense of excess. As one would expect, the tannins are harmonious and integrated daubing the palate with dazzling griotte and graphite. A profound and reflective GPL.

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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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Critic Reviews

97/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2020 Grand-Puy-Lacoste has a wonderful, "cool" bouquet with refined, graphite-infused black fruit that simply oozes class. The palate is medium-bodied with sapid black fruit and wonderful symmetry, fresh and tensile with a persistent, tobacco-tinged finish that could only come from Pauillac. Wonderful. Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting.

drinking window 2032 - 2065

date of review 11/2024

93/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

The 2020 Grand-Puy-Lacoste has a deep garnet-purple color. It bounds from the glass with eager-to-please notes of crushed black plums, wild blueberries, and warm cassis, plus touches of violets, licorice, and wild sage. The medium-bodied palate is vibrant with crunchy black fruits and a grainy texture, finishing on a mineral note.

drinking window 2025 - 2047

date of review 03/2023

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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.