A beautiful, full-bodied Lynch Bages that is perfectly balanced with classic flavors just emerging of tobacco-tinged black fruits and graphite minerals. Just a baby though and needs more time to reach peak. 94+
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Super Bowl LVIII 2024 (Alpharetta, GA): Tasted double blind: Youthful color, deep ruby, polished wine, touch of sweetness on the finish with firm tannin. Still very primary, which made it tough to identify where it is from. Bordeaux nose, but Super Tuscan finish. I called it 2004 Sassicaia.
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The wine was decanted for two hours prior to tasting. Deep ruby/garnet color with no signs of bricking at the edges; blackberry, cedar pencil, mocha and a touch of green vegetable and eucalyptus on the nose. Deeply integrated silky black fruit; with nice melding of primary and secondary notes. Plenty of firm tannic structure and a long, long finish. This wine has at least a couple of decades of life left in it, but it is drinking beautifully right now.
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Black/purple. Nose similar to the 1989 Lynch Bages, but much less developed, less intense. Similar on the palate but a little hotter, displaying plums, cedar and complexity. Tasted in a flight which included the 1989 Lynch Bages, the 2000 Figeac and the 2000 La Conseillante. The 1989 Lynch was the consensus favorite of the flight. This was my favorite of the three 2000's, although many in the group favored the Figeac. Didn't score it, but it would have been between 92-95. An excellent wine, and at age 24 it still seems young, with possible future development - but only one bottle left in my cellar.
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(Château Lynch-Bages) Opaque black red violet color; coffee, espresso, berry, blackberry nose; a little tight yet, coffee, black fruit, blackberry palate with good acidity; medium-plus finish 92+ pts.
(Château Lynch-Bages) Very dark red violet color; Bordeaux, pencil lead and plum nose; good tart plum cassis, lead pencil and black fruit palate; medium-plus finish
(Lynch Bages) This was very very closed on the nose. I actually didn't smell anything. I swirled and swirled but could not really coax anything. It was the end of the bottle too. The palate was tight but I got more out of that than the nose. Somewhat fleshy with dark concentrated fruit, nice acids and some pretty clamby tannins. The fruit though extended on the finish. It was sweet, classy and very nice. Do not open for at least five years.
(Lynch Bages) This was completely closed down. Hint of earth and mineral on the pretty ungiving nose. Dense and ripe with great fruit. Long, long, long but also tannic, tannic, tannic. Incredible underlying material but very tough to taste today.
3/17/2024 - mendezcellars Likes this wine: 90 Points
Very nice medium bodied, fruit flavors.
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3/8/2024 - dream Likes this wine: 94 Points
A beautiful, full-bodied Lynch Bages that is perfectly balanced with classic flavors just emerging of tobacco-tinged black fruits and graphite minerals. Just a baby though and needs more time to reach peak. 94+
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2/11/2024 - Francophile1 Likes this wine:
Super Bowl LVIII 2024 (Alpharetta, GA): Tasted double blind: Youthful color, deep ruby, polished wine, touch of sweetness on the finish with firm tannin. Still very primary, which made it tough to identify where it is from. Bordeaux nose, but Super Tuscan finish. I called it 2004 Sassicaia.
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1/26/2024 - BernieMSY Likes this wine: 95 Points
The wine was decanted for two hours prior to tasting.
Deep ruby/garnet color with no signs of bricking at the edges; blackberry, cedar pencil, mocha and a touch of green vegetable and eucalyptus on the nose.
Deeply integrated silky black fruit; with nice melding of primary and secondary notes. Plenty of firm tannic structure and a long, long finish. This wine has at least a couple of decades of life left in it, but it is drinking beautifully right now.
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1/17/2024 - D_RICH wrote:
Black/purple. Nose similar to the 1989 Lynch Bages, but much less developed, less intense. Similar on the palate but a little hotter, displaying plums, cedar and complexity. Tasted in a flight which included the 1989 Lynch Bages, the 2000 Figeac and the 2000 La Conseillante. The 1989 Lynch was the consensus favorite of the flight. This was my favorite of the three 2000's, although many in the group favored the Figeac. Didn't score it, but it would have been between 92-95. An excellent wine, and at age 24 it still seems young, with possible future development - but only one bottle left in my cellar.
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