2016 Château Lynch-Bages

Red Bordeaux Blend

La Cave d'Argent Likes this wine: 99 points

January 26, 2019 - Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux 2016 Vintage Tasting (Las Vegas, NV): With its 2016 offering, Lynch-Bages has crafted a truly legendary wine. Opaque crimson, it brims with everything good. Black currants, dark plums, tarry black cherries, licorice, graphite, tobacco and espresso are but a few of the aromas and flavors that a taster can find on his or her journey with this wine. Full-bodied, fresh, seamlessly alcoholic and with gorgeous purity of fruit, it wraps its flavors with abundant fine-grained tannins and is tremendously dense on the mid-palate. The wine's finish goes on and on, but time in the cellar will be required in order to fully soften the tannic grip. This has the potential to ultimately receive a perfect score, and is definitely the best young Lynch that I have ever tasted. Drink 2030-2056.

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For the Love of Wine commented:

1/31/19, 5:12 AM - Excellent review! Thank you! I will be looking forward to this wine!
La Cave d'Argent commented:

1/31/19, 2:18 PM - I appreciate your kind words. I'm glad that you found my note to be helpful.
yeti575rider commented:

2/1/19, 7:25 PM - Couldn't figure out a way to comment on the overall UGC notes so I'll place it under your WOTN. Excellent notes and thanks for sharing. I thought last year's UGC in DC was one of the best tastings I had ever been to and probably the only opportunity I'll ever get to taste that many wines of the same vintage at the same time. Unfortunately they skipped DC this year and I couldn't make any of the others so I enjoyed reading your summary. Looks like you missed the Pichon's which are usually there and supposed to be up there with the Lynch. For 2016 I went with Montrose, Rauzan Segla, And Larcis Ducasse, albeit a bottle each so far. Think it's hard to go wrong with any of the quality names.
La Cave d'Argent commented:

2/1/19, 7:34 PM - We did indeed miss the Pichons and Montrose, which I have no doubt were fantastic. That said, the Las Vegas tasting was a rousing success. Cheers! :-)