1995 Château Lascombes

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  11/3/2022 - Teyufu wrote:

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  7/24/2022 - Wineteacher Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Three years later since opening the first bottle, we decided to open another one. The 1995 Lascombes is now softer and full of mature nuances. The color is slightly brick-ish. The nose of leather, tobacco and cedar. It is so scented that it oozes out of the glass the body is medium but the wine being so flavorful and balanced that it is a great joy to drink it. I am so lucky that there are still four bottles left from the original half case. At age 26, this wine is at its peak and will hold well over the next five to ten years. Please take note that this wine was bought en premier and has been in a cook cellar ever since release. Less ideal cellaring condition would mean hastening of maturity.

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  4/29/2019 - Wineteacher Likes this wine: flawed

  The cork looked perfect but started to rip when it was half out so I backed off the screw and tonged the rest out with the Ah-So. The cork was actually in good shape with the wine end quite stained. We decanted with very little sediment. Only about half an ounce was left behind in the bottle. The color was quite red of a very fresh hue and with hardly any brick color. The nose was a combination of dried leaf, leather and dried fruit, with also a goodly touch of tobacco and earth also. On the palate, the wine was dry and austere with very obvious tannins. It was austere but not hollow. The taste was consistent with the bouquet. Very enjoyable with definitely the mainstream characteristics of a mature Bordeaux. I would not have guessed it was a Margaux. It wasn’t lush or meaty but wonderfully complex and scented. This isn’t a Parker wine. Pleasure giving all the way.

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  4/30/2016 - red_man wrote: 90 Points

  perfect long cork and mid-neck level, black-red with almost no brown, refined, almost piercing, fruit nose, complex and intense, very Margaux, palate has lovely balance, quite marked acidity and slightly hard tannins giving a degree of austerity that make for a very clean finish, personally I like this classic, slightly hard style, good food wine, also went very well with aged hard cheeses afterwards, will keep in more or less the same style for many years and the tannins may even still soften a bit, last bottle of Lascombes was '83 and that was just great

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  2/17/2014 - JeandeTroyes Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Yes, yes, yes! An excellent example of why Bordeaux leaves other cabernet/merlot examples for dead. Still plenty of colour (slight bricking at the edges), stunnning nose, and oodles of luscious leather on the tongue. Plenty of acidity to carry this wine for a few more years, and the suggestion that this should have been drunk by 2011 is ludicrous. Yummy! Have found Chateau Lascombes extremely reliable over the years (the 1982 is fabulous).

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