2001 Château Lascombes

Community Tasting Notes (126) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  1/9/2024 - Mi Pisco wrote: 93 Points

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  Wine & Spirits
  A joyous Lascombes, this is the first vintage to hit stride since the US investment firm Colony Capital took over in 2001. It's a meaty wine draped in fragrant tannin, built for long aging. It's also an exuberant wine, in both the bright, red currant-scented fruit and the bristle of the tannin. A playfully complex flavor lasts for minutes, the wine still youthful and fresh four days after it was opened. Margaux chic.
  93
  Wine Spectator
  Dark in color, with an impressive nose of licorice, toasty oak, chocolate and blackberry. Full-bodied, with silky tannins and a long, caressing finish. Very pretty and structured.
  93
  Connoisseurs' Guide
  This well-filled, impeccably balanced wine starts with aromas of cherries, sweet berries, tobacco leaves, rose petals, vanilla bean oak and black walnuts. Its lushness is more reminiscent of what we are finding from the St. Juliens than of the Margaux set, and in that regard, Lascombes comes up a bigtime success in this vintage. Its flavors have a "drink me now" quality but its underlying tannins speak to its ability to age, and there is every reason to expect more than a decade of growth.
  91
  Wine Enthusiast
  Lascombes is approaching the form its status as a second growth suggests. This wine is close, packed with dark fruits, figs and juicy black currant extract. The aftertaste has some bitterness, with layers of toast and spice coming through strongly.

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  12/31/2022 - chatters wrote:

  Coravin fun - Bordeaux (My place, Kent Street): From Coravin. Medium minus intensity aromas of blackcurrant, a little sweet spice, toast, touch of herbaceous underpin, a little wet leaves, leather, cigar box, smells a little dilute. Sourly juicy; black fruit with a slight herbaceous underpin, drying emery paper tannins provides slightly leather. Oddly slight alcohol warmth on the finish, simple but rather nice.

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  12/15/2022 - PSPatrick wrote: 89 Points

  Decanted for 1 1/2 hours. Medium to dark garnet colour. Black currant, dark cherry, blackberry, blueberry, light bell pepper, herbaceous notes, pencil shavings, graphite, earth, tobacco, and spices, with medium-level acidity, fine tannin, and good length. Classic profile, with average concentration and complexity. Thins out towards the end. Very earthy, with sandpapery tannins on day two. Will last for another ten years, but will not improve. Drink now.

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  12/25/2021 - the shrub wrote: 95 Points

  Excellent bottle. Complex secondary flavours. Super smooth. Leather and pencil lead. First class.

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  12/19/2021 - SussexSB Likes this wine: 91 Points

  nearly got there. Nose out of bottle stupendous, but this example didn't shine from the initially hoped depth. I will go again, as I think this bottle was a little flat. Sweet Margaux nose.

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