2011-LACOSTE-BORIE-du-Château-Grand-Puy-Lacoste-Pauillac

LACOSTE BORIE

2011 du Château Grand Puy Lacoste Pauillac

Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Sub-district Haut Médoc
Village Pauillac
ABV 14%

55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc. Pretty, gourmand fruit and fun! Easy and undemanding, but such a pleasure. Long too. Rating: 88 L&S (Apr 2012)


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The nose is full of rich sweet fruit and the black plum on the palate gives a fleshy richness. There is a lovely supple feel rounded tannins and ripe black fruits. Fresher bilberry and bramble gives a lighter fresher feel on the finish. 2018-35 Rating: 89-92 Derek Smedley MW, www.dereksmedleymw.co.uk (Dec 2013)

Fingers crossed that the price of this wine will be as reasonable as it has been in the past, because it’s a deliciously drinkable second wine, showing classy cinnamon oak, fine, granular tannins, refreshing cassis and black cherry fruit and a long, textured, satisfying finish. A wine to buy, drink and enjoy. 8+ years. Rating: 93 Tim Atkin MW, www.timatkin.com (May 2012)

The Lacoste Borie, a blend of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Franc, has a light, earthy bouquet, rustic round the edge but with a core of crisp black fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with a terse entry, very tight at the moment with crisp acidity that leads to a pleasant, austere, foursquare finish that should provide early to medium-term drinking. Rating: 86-88 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Apr 2012)

Château Grand Puy Lacoste

Pauillac Cinquième Cru 1855.

If there's an estate that can rival Lynch Bages for the crown of most over-performing 5th Growth, it would be Grand-Puy-Lacoste.

The "Grand Puy" is the low gravelly hill on which the vineyards sit. In 1750 a portion were sold to Pierre Ducasse and became, obviously, Château Grand Puy Ducasse while the rest, after a couple of name changes owing to inheritance by daughters, became Château Grand Puy Lacoste.

The Borie family bought into Grand Puy Lacoste in 1978 and began quite a renaissance for the property.

Just a few kilometres from the town of Pauillac, the vineyards of Chateau Grand-Puy-Lacoste total roughly 36 hectares (90 acres) with Cabernet Sauvignon making up 75% of the total plantings and the rest belonging to Merlot (20%) and Cabernet Franc (5%). Typical of the region, the vineyard consists of a deep gravel top soil on a limestone base.

Production is about 12,000 cases of wine in an average year. Fermentation takes place in temperature controlled stainless steel tanks, and then the wines are placed into oak barrels (50% new) for 18 months of aging.

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