Château Lynch Bages, 5ème Cru Classé, Pauillac, 2021

Name: Château Lynch Bages, 5ème Cru Classé, Pauillac
Brand: Château Lynch Bages
Price: 650.74 GBP

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justerini & brooks tasting note

67% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc and 5% Petit Verdot. Jean-Charles believes the 2021 combines "ripeness, elegance, and finesse... a great Chateau Lynch Bages". It appears to be brighter, less introspective style of Lynch Bages, less musclebound, but no less impressive. Produced from low yields of 34 hl/ha, this is fully ripe with a wonderful sense of depth and completeness, excellent drive and definition. Lots of sweet berry fruit, notes of eucalyptus, cedar and graphite. There's an impressive core of fruit here, a real sense of purity and energy, sweet hedgerow fruit, bright and dark, framed by velvet textured tannins. Beautiful balance and poise.

critic reviews

93/100Lisa Perrotti-Brown,The Wine Independent

A blend of 67% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Petit Verdot, the 2021 Lynch-Bages has a deep garnet-purple color. It bursts with bold notions of wild blueberries, kirsch, and blackcurrants, giving way to underlying hints of lilacs, aniseed, and tar. The light to medium-bodied palate is tightly wound, with a lively line and chewy tannins, featuring bright black fruit and minerally layers, finishing with a floral lift.

DRINKING WINDOW 2027 - 2053

date of review 04/2024

91/100Jane Anson,Inside Bordeaux

Brambled blue and black fruits, undergrowth, pencil lead and tobacco leaf, plenty of Pauillac character, with tannins that are almost limbering up and ready to drink, far earlier than in vintages like 2020 or 2022. This has some impressively silky tannins, and is an upscore. 11% new oak, rest one year old. 3.7ph.

DRINKING WINDOW 2025 - 2036

date of review 04/2024

94/100Neal Martin,Vinous

The 2021 Lynch-Bages has a wonderful bouquet with intense blackberry and bilberry fruit, retaining the estuarine element I remarked upon from barrel. The oak here is seamlessly integrated and gains complexity with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-grained tannins, very supple and focused, a little more peppery toward the finish with impressive grip and depth in context of the vintage. This is a superb achievement in a tricky season. Chapeau, Jean-Charles Cazes.

DRINKING WINDOW 2027 - 2055

date of review 02/2024

93+/100William Kelley,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2021 Lynch-Bages is one of the vintage's bigger, broader-shouldered wines, offering up aromas of creme de cassis, plums and spices, framed by a generous application of creamy new oak. Medium to full-bodied, dense and chunky, with a velvety attack that segues into a layered core of fruit framed by generously extracted tannins, it concludes with a long, lusty finish. Fully 40 hectares of this estate is now cultivated organically, principally those parcels that adjoin the houses of Pauillac. As is almost invariably the case with this estate, it will repay a bit of patience.

DRINKING WINDOW 2031 - 2051

date of review 02/2024