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CHÂTEAU LYNCH BAGES

2013 5ème Cru Classé Pauillac

Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Sub-district Haut Médoc
Village Pauillac
Classification 5ème Cru Classé
ABV 14%

Very classical Lynch with masses of black fruit, fresh and pure. It has not got the movement of a top vintage but the Lynch Bages generosity is here even if distinctiveness is limited. Supple and cool in its concentrated volume. The finish picks up the freshness and gives an impression of much more to come. It's just a bit dry to score higher now, but I'd expect this to train on, probably above the upper end of where it feels now. Rating: 89-91 L&S (Apr 2014)


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The 2013 Lynch-Bages showed a little volatility initially, although this seems to disappear with aeration. It displays red fruit, kirsch and just a touch of fig aromas. Strange for this vintage! The palate has commendable concentration but becomes a little monotone in the glass and lacks a bit of joie-de-vivre. Tasted at the Lynch-Bages vertical at the château. Drinking range: 2021 - 2024 Rating: 87 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Jul 2023)

Delivers juicy redcurrant and raspberry fruits, without huge estate character but there is plenty of life, with tannins that continue to exert pressure on the structure of the wine. Enjoyable twist of smoked cedar on the finish. 70% new oak. Harvest October 1 to 12. Drinking range: 2023 - 2036 Rating: 89 Jane Anson, Decanter (Feb 2023)

Medium ruby in colour, fresh redcurrant and raspberry fuits, delicate and sappy with attactive floral character given depth by sweet cedar, campfire and ash notes, finishing with waves of salty caramel. The team here has done a great job with a difficult vintage, without bypassing its issues altogether. 70% new oak. Harvest October 1 to 12. Drinking range: 2022 - 2036 Rating: 89 Jane Anson, Decanter (Apr 2022)

Château Lynch Bages

Pauillac Cinquième cru 1855 Thomas Lynch emigrated to Bordeaux from Galway in Ireland in 1691. He had two children and it was his son Thomas who associated the family name with Bordeaux by inheriting Lynch-Bages through his wife, and buying Lynch-Moussas and Dauzac in Margaux. Jean-Charles Cazes, who had recently bought Château Les Ormes de Pez in St Estèphe, took the tenancy of Lynch-Bages in 1934, and bought the property outright five years later. It has been the ownership of the Cazes family, who still own the estate, which turned Château Lynch Bages into the leading estate it is today, far exceeding the seemingly lowly 5th growth status bestowed upon it in 1855. There are 90ha of vines in the small village of Bages, just south of Pauillac. Red grapes are planted to 73% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot. Wines are fermented in temperature-controlled stainless-steel before ageing in wood (60% new) for 15 months. There has been a second wine produced at Lynch-Bages since 1978 that was originally called Château Haut Bages Averous, but has recently been renamed Echo de Lynch Bages. A small amount of Château Lynch Bages Blanc is made from 40% each of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon and 20% Muscadelle.

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