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

Château Lynch Bages, 5ème Cru Classé, Pauillac, 2022

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justerini & brooks tasting note

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critic reviews

96/100Chris Kissack,The Wine Independent

I find a classically styled Lynch-Bages nose here, all dark and savoury fruit, with a polish of toasted oak laid over the top. The palate is fresh, cool and savoury, filled with confident dried fruits laced with dark and peppery nuances. Nicely integrated, polished, plush, seamless, charming, with layers of powdery oak, dark chocolate, tobacco and toast coming to the fore as the wine lingers. A very impressive showing here, and anybody who has this one tucked away in the cellar should feel content.

DRINKING WINDOW 2030 - 2062
date of review 06/2025
97/100Jane Anson,Inside Bordeaux

Exceptional, liquorice, slate, graphite, pumice stone tannins and a salt scrape on the finish that is key to balancing out this ripe full bodied Lynch. Great stuff, with ageing potential in spades. High alcohol for a Pauillac no question, but this walks the line with grace. 75% new oak for ageing, Nicolas Labenne winemaker.

DRINKING WINDOW 2030 - 2046
date of review 03/2025
96/100Neal Martin,Vinous

The 2022 Lynch-Bages has a showstopping bouquet that is well defined, very pure and focused, displaying black fruit laced with cedar and graphite. Hints of pressed violet emerge with aeration. This has actually gained pixelation in barrel. The palate is taut and crisp, with touches of graphite flourishing with aeration so that it could only come from Pauillac. There's plenty of energy coiled up in this Lynch Bages. The 2022 will give a lot of pleasure over the next 30 years or more. Superb.

DRINKING WINDOW 2032 - 2075
date of review 02/2025
93-96/100William Kelley,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

One of the vintage's most powerful, muscular wines is the 2022 Lynch-Bages, a full-bodied, broad-shouldered Pauillac that unfurls in the glass with aromas of cassis, cherries, mint, pencil shavings and petroleum jelly, framed by nicely integrated new oak. Liberally extracted, its deep core of fruit is underpinned by an imposing chassis of rich, powdery tannin and lively acids. Always rather forbidding from barrel, Lynch Bages always seems to come together in bottle, and the 2022 has the makings of another success for this address.

date of review 04/2023

product details

Country:
France
Region:
Bordeaux
Appellation:
Pauillac
Producer:
Château Lynch Bages
Style:
Red Wine
Grape Variety:
Cab Sauvignon Merlot
abv:
13%

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