2000 Château Lascombes
Community Tasting Note
Gregory Dal Piaz wrote:
Saturday, September 24, 2022 - Ex mag purchased on release as futures
Perfect fill, perfect cork,
Color remains youthful and appropriate ruby, blood red, with a faint hint of bronze tot he rim.
Aromatics are youthful and well balanced, still showing wood and smoke accents that are joined by hints of leather, barnyard, soil bay leaf, black currant and minty/vegetal rose petal.
Slender and focused on entry, most resolved tannins, fairly juicy acidity, modest intensity but admirable purity tot he sour cherry, black currant, and tart blackberry flavors, elegant and pure, needs a good hour of air as it turns slightly austere on the moderately long finish, which has a lovely river stone minerality on the finale. Classic Bordeaux, classic Margaux with the finish showing all red berries and white floral tones, but it does show a continued demonstration of the initial over rating of the vintage, quite good but unremarkable.
After an hour the aromatic have moved more towards the barnyard end of the spectrum, quite smoky as well with more depth tot he black currant fruit.
Delicate, elegant, bright juicy if a little modestly endowed, but the purity here is an absolute delight, Theres hidden depth to the black currant fruit, and lovely freshness through the increasingly long finish.
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