Echo de Lynch Bages, Pauillac, 2010
Echo represents just 26% of the crop, produced from 58% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot and 9% Cabernet Franc. Superb colour. The bouquet offers notes of cool cassis fruit and genuine Pauillac character. On the palate there is real intensity and no shortage of flavour: juicy, engaging red berries, hedgerow fruit, sloes and blackcurrants. This is a taut, distinguished second wine. Very good indeed!
critic reviews
The 2010 Echo de Lynch Bages has a very attractive bouquet, a mélange of red and black fruit tinged with damp loam and undergrowth aromas, all well defined and adding welcome floral scents with continued aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with fine grain tannins. Hints of graphite and bell pepper infuse the ample black fruit. There is superb weight and body towards the finish. A classic Claret from start to finish, this is a great wine in the making. I was shocked and pleased when the identity of this wine was revealed (incidentally one that I had not encountered previously.). Tasted blind at Farr Vintners 10-Year On Bordeaux horizontal.