2019 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste

Community Tasting Notes (31) Avg Score: 93.8 points

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  4/13/2024 - rossi.wine wrote:

  No formal notes. Ripe fruit, great structure and balance. Obviously too young but really fun to taste at this stage. Lovely depth and fine length.

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  4/13/2024 - A Renaissance Vintner Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Very concentrated cassis, blueberry and pencil lead on the nose, with just a touch of (attractive) wood char. There is something about the blueberry aspect that tells you its fairly alcoholic IMO. Opened this over two nights alongside Lagrange (the St Julien version) and Cantenac Brown (Margaux) - and preferred both of the other wines because I find the alcohol on the GPL a bit intrusive. On the other hand it was clearly the most concentrated of the three. I think that in ten years this maybe splitting hairs: it's an excellent wine I'll be happy to drink, but I'd much rather have a classic wine from a ripe year than I would have a wine that is primarily ripe but only just lets you know it comes from a classic region - and I think this sits right on the fence. 14.5% alcohol is just a fraction too much for Cabernet, IMO. I think Merlot (and Pinot) can 'wear' 14.5% a little better than Cab.

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  10/12/2023 - chatters wrote:

  Bordeaux 2019 (Dan Murphy's, Lane Cove): Rich, ripe, alcohol prickle, blackcurrant, cedar, a little cassis and mint, polished oak is integrated. Juicy, medium plus intensity acidity, plentiful textured grip is quite woody, blackcurrant a little slightly herbaceous note on the palate as well. Long, persistent, slight non-intrusive alcohol warmth, needs time.

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  8/10/2023 - grafstrb wrote:

  -- uncorked approx.. 30 min. before initial taste --
  -- tasted non-blind over a couple hours --
  
  NOSE: medium+ expressiveness; red-fruited; spicy; some oak, but not too much.
  
  BODY: magenta-garnet color of great depth; medium bodied.
  
  TASTE: good acidity; spicy; red-fruited (raspberry); inky/floral; some oak; alc. hidden; violets; “very GPL”; approachable, despite its youth. Nice wine, particularly for fans of GPL.

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  7/28/2023 - Peraix Likes this wine: 95 Points

  From 375 ml. Intense cassis paired with vanilla spiced blueberries. All this with perfectly integrated tannins.
  
  Plenty of fruit flavours that adds a bit too much sweetness today together with the high alcohol (14.5%). It's still very good but I prefer to pass this "blueberry and vanilla jam stage" and wait minimum 5-10 years to see what comes next.
  
  The pefect kind of pairing food if enjoyed today would for example be really dry meat without fat like deer or moose. Hard cheese would also be fine.

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