Community Tasting Notes 15

• Chupeaka Likes this wine: 95 points

  February 6, 2024 - 95 now but could go to 96.
  
  Lagrange is my benchmark wine. I don't think langoa, talbot, la croix beaucaillou, or branaire ducru exceed this wine.
  
  Ripe, fresh, bright, and pure. Cassis and dark fruits, cherries, spice, minerality, and gravel. Subtle nuances of violets, chocolate, spice, coffee. Juicy and acidic. Sweet and pure. Tannins powdery but still young with a tinge of bitterness. Nice long aftertaste.
  
  This one needs more time to gain elegance and come together.
  
  Balanced. Purity + precision compared to 2018's opulence. More medium-full bodied compared to the 2018's full body.
  
  The more this opens up the more I like it! Drank it in one night.

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• Barolo Freak Likes this wine: 90 points

  January 14, 2024 - The 2020 Chateau Lagrange is a mini classic in the making. I popped and I decanted, and then I let it breathe for three hours. There is little tannin, but it will be many years before the fruit emerges. 90 for now, but that could go higher in another ten years. It is fairly priced at $55 a bottle.

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• Jeff Leve wrote: 95 points

  March 21, 2023 - The perfume kicks off with mint, cigar box, black and red currants, black cherries and tobacco leaves. And with all that, the wine is just getting started because it is even better on the palate with its multiple-layers of supple, fresh, vibrant, sweet, ripe fruits, elegant silky tannins, length and purity. Starting with the 2016 vintage, Lagrange has been on a hot streak and 2020 could be their best vintage yet. If you haven't tasted what they are doing, you need to grab a bottle and pull a cork! Drink from 2027-2055.

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• Zweder wrote: 92 points

  March 6, 2023 - UGCB tasting Bordeaux 2020 Walkaround tasting so in general just short notes (Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam.): Elegant and juicy dark berries, good acidity and tannin as well as a good length. 91 – 92

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• FransS wrote: 90 points

  March 6, 2023 - The 2020 vintage UGCB tasting in Amsterdam 03/06/2023 (Amsterdam): The wine, or this bottle, didn't convince me, a bit green impression in the bouquet and a bit lean, a decent aftertaste.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2020
• Type Red
• Producer Château Lagrange (St. Julien)
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Médoc
• Appellation St. Julien
• UPC Codes 087000345638, 3760172719632, 3760172719694

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• Pending Delivery 389 (20%)
• In Cellars 1,492 (78%)
• Consumed 20 (1%)

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