Château Grand Puy Lacoste

Lacoste Borie, Pauillac, 2022

Name: Lacoste Borie, Pauillac
Brand: Château Grand Puy Lacoste
Price: 165.34 GBP

92/100

Inside Bordeaux

90-92/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

88/100

The Wine Independent

90/100

Vinous

Available Vintages

all 2018 2020 2022 2023 2024

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2022
6x75cl
DP
£165.34

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Lacoste Borie is always one of our favourite second wines, but we don't think we've ever encountered such a serious, texturally alluring example as the 2022. This smells, tastes and feels like a very grown-up wine. Opening with a classic GPL bouquet of flowers, dried lavender, blackcurrant and a sheen of blue and purple fruits, it leads to a juicy, supple core of of fragrant berries – fluid and perfumed, this is an absolute delight, finishing with succulent, sweet tannins – perfectly pitched, a really well-proportioned Lacoste Borie. Fabulous! 56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot and 9% Cabernet Franc.

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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.

The Journey

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

88/100

Chris Kissack,

The Wine Independent

The blend of the second wine of Grand-Puy-Lacoste is 56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot and 9% Cabernet Franc, and the élevage was 14 to 16 months in 45% new oak. The nose opens with a welcoming and charming nose, smoky dried cherries and griottes, a little currant, dried raspberry and toast. It feels very Pauillac in style, through to the rather soft and supple palate, with an easy-going substance and a core of gentle powdery tannins. It finishes with a rather sharp, acidulous cherry note which fills the length. Plenty of structure, and a light blanket of fruit, means this will tolerate mid-term aging only I think;come back in three to five years to see how it is getting along. The alcohol is 14% on the label.

drinking window 2025 - 2036

date of review 06/2025

90/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2022 Lacoste-Borie presents a vibrant nose, well-defined and focused with blackberry, wild strawberry and light <em>sous-bois</em> aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with sapid black fruit, moderate weight and a fresh, generous finish. It may not be as long on the aftertaste as others, but this is a very delicious Lacoste-Borie.

drinking window 2026 - 2043

date of review 02/2025

92/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

This is full of serious Pauillac tannins, great quality, with plenty of depth to the black fruits and acidity to underpin the palate. Firm in its framework, serious and with clear ability to soften over ageing, good quality, softened by edges of damp fern and rose petal aromatics. 3.6ph, 40% of production in this wine. 50% new oak for ageing.

drinking window 2027 - 2040

date of review 05/2023

90-92/100

William Kelley,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

A blend of 56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot and 9% Cabernet Franc, the 2022 Lacoste-Borie is as good a wine from this label as I can remember tasting. Exhibiting aromas of cassis, charcoal and violets, it's medium to full-bodied, ample and lively, with excellent depth and persistence.

date of review 04/2023

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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:

13.5%

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.