Community Tasting Notes 859

• VINNICK wrote: 100 points

  April 22, 2024 - This is becoming one of my favorite producers and this vintage maybe my favorite wine. Opened Friday evening and slow oxed for 24 hours, had half the bottle on Saturday and the second half Sunday. Kept at 55 the entire time but better to drink at 60. The wine is flawless, perfect balance, elegance, and harmony. Everything you expect from a great Bordeaux.

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• MC wrote:

  March 2, 2024 - Decanted 30 minutes and enjoyed over dinner at a restaurant. This was great - really enjoyable with dark cool fruit, really nice secondaries, and a nice long finish. Incredible how dark and even primary the fruit is at this age. Will live for a long time. A

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• the player Likes this wine: 97 points

  March 1, 2024 - Tremendous wine. Opened and aerated in bottle for an hour then decanted and drank over two hours. Cork almost fully soaked. Deep crimson red color, nose wafting with perfumed cassis, black currants, leather initially which morphed into cigar tobacco with more time in the decanter. Beautifully crafted wine, complex with secondary notes of mature delicious dark red and black fruits. Silky entry on the palate, expands beautifully mid palate with superb balance, finishes long with notes of coffee. As good as the 1982 if not better.

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• RMyrick Likes this wine: 98 points

  February 14, 2024 - Poured about 1 glass from the bottle upon opening and let the rest breathe in bottle. Drank over ~7 hours. Tight initially with notes of raspberry, cedar, and graphite. A bit of acidity and alcohol as well that airs out quickly.
  
  Around the 2 hour mark the next glass brings forth prominent cedar, blackberry, and mint notes.
  
  4+ hours after opening the wine has fully opened with the oak falling into the background and the fruit taking over. Medium in body with a long finish and fully resolved tannins. Drinking beautifully now and seems close to peak but still lively enough to hold for years.

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• cct wrote: 96 points

  January 23, 2024 - A terrific lung filling nose. Cassis, wet bricks, pencil lead, bitter chocolate and florals that follow onto the palate. It's expansive and deep yet graceful and finessed on the palate. Power and grace. Long on the back end. Drinking at absolute peak for me with time in hand. A great LB.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1989
• Type Red
• Producer Château Lynch-Bages
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Médoc
• Appellation Pauillac
• UPC Codes 000008738028, 000009137073, 014100076629, 0400005643774, 041224152502, 072180692740, 073866805409, 078742374604, 087000330115, 087000347540, 204022504342, 206331002649, 206486002594, 3554770032428, 3700218200021, 3760020133979, 400000923871, 649185961043, 649185961968, 830293006270

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• Pending Delivery 84 (0%)
• In Cellars 12,309 (66%)
• Consumed 6,363 (34%)

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