2005 Château Lagrange (St. Julien)

Community Tasting Notes (328) Avg Score: 91.9 points

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  4/14/2024 - karanan Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Decanted 2 hours - a great wine, but not excellent until the last glass. I should note that my wife absolutely loved the wine from the first sip. Next time, will decant for 4 hours which might do the trick. Not much fruit left but some berries detected. It was silky and did feel higher in acid, but that didn't take away from the wine itself. Overall, I was expecting more. I don't feel like the wine is going to develop further, but I think this will last another 5 years or so.

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  4/11/2024 - wine_enjoyer Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Spectacular. The ‘05 vintage provides this Lagrange with elevated quality. Round, balanced, and complex. Can’t wait to try more Bordeaux from this year.
  
  Colour: deep garnet.
  Tannins: high.
  Acid: high.
  Texture: velvety.
  Finish: long.
  
  Aromas: sour cherry, leather, slightly earthy, and floral (violets and roses).

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  4/8/2024 - steveiiiiii Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Two hour decant helped this bottle a lot. Drinks nicely with tertiary aromas there but not dominating. A clean, classic bdx with cassis, cedar, tar and leather. Drinks now with air but will also develop/improve from here.

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  3/29/2024 - Scapolite Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Deep ruby, opaque in the center, with some bricking on the rim, showing its age. There is still some translucent rim despite it being 19 years old. There are some legs as well.
  
  On the nose, quite a beautiful bouquet with a great mix of earthy and fruity notes. Leather, wet earth, tobacco, forest floor, some cocoa and peppercorns, black currants, blackberries, cedar, and black plums. There is also some greenness to this in bell peppers. This is quite complex and elegant.
  
  On the palate, tannins are somewhat resolved but it is still somewhat astringent. Medium bodied, with a great mix of leathery and black fruit notes, similar to the nose, and are balanced with the upfront acidity, with a medium plus spicy finish.
  
  Complex and elegant, this is drinking very nicely.

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  3/24/2024 - pavel_p wrote:

  Grabbed another bottle of the 2005 from an open OWC as I was in a hurry and did not know what else to open for dinner at home. At least had a chance to give this for once a fairly long 2h decant. The extensive air did however not deliver any significant improvement over my earlier pnp bottles. This is a solid medium bodied left bank Bdx but just a bit underwhelming in terms of depth for what should have been an extraordinary vintage also at Lagrange. Consistent 91.

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