2004 Château Lynch-Bages

Red Bordeaux Blend

wineforth Likes this wine: 95 points

November 19, 2022 - 10th bottle from a case bought en primeur. Similar to the last bottle. Sandalwood, chocolate, leather and blackcurrant nose. Well balanced on the palate with plenty of beautifully soft fruit and tannins. Lynch Bages did particularly well in this average vintage. Drinking perfectly now and will decline slowly over a decade.

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Juliansi commented:

12/13/22, 6:02 AM - Would this need a long decant time to bring out the best from this LB04? Thanks a lot!
wineforth commented:

12/13/22, 6:10 AM - Hi Juliansi, wines of this age and type of vintage I decant and drink. It may develop over a couple of hours but will more likely go downhill if you wait.
Juliansi commented:

12/13/22, 6:19 AM - Thanks wineforth, is 1 hour full decant useful.. or perhaps 2 hours bottle breathed?

I too am concerned about over decanting!!
wineforth commented:

12/13/22, 7:55 AM - It depends how long you are drinking it over. If you are taking a whole evening between two then decant and start straight away. If there are more people and its one glass each then wait an hour after decanting. My wife only drinks whites so I usually double decant back into the bottle, fill the gap with argon, stopper and use more inert gas via Coravin to drink over 2 to 3 evenings. btw. I went briefly to Alice Smith School in 1967 then to Uplands, Penang, when it was on the peak!
Juliansi commented:

12/14/22, 8:11 PM - Wineforth, thanks a lot - Useful, I think I will simply decant an hour before, and let the hours run by in the rest of the evening with our big chinese dinner and have this LB04 aerate in our Lucaris glasses!!

Ah... you are ex-Malaysia, in the good ol' days too. Great to meet you, and look forward to following your wine adventures on CellarTracker! All the best... from Kuala Lumpur.