2009 Château Lynch-Bages
Community Tasting Note
otto60 Likes this wine:
95 Points
Tuesday, May 31, 2022 - Double decant into the cleaned bottle for 2hrs
Dark saturated ruby
Dark fruit
Very very good balance
Little wood
Great, quite 89 like
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Comment posted by Jimaronson:
5/31/2022 5:35:00 PM - I have found my bottles closed. Are you saying that the wine has evolved? Did you try it in the past few years and how would you compare it over time?
Comment posted by otto60:
5/31/2022 10:28:00 PM - I had this more than 10 times over the last 10 years and have to say that this was the most open one. We drank it over 4 hours and the last glass was the best. Last time I tried the 09 abt 2 years ago it was far more closed, almost slim, but I'm never sure how much bottle variation there is.
My comparison with 89 derives from a single time when a friend shared a double Magnum 10 years ago. It's the amount and creamy quality of the tannins.