2010 Château Lascombes
Community Tasting Note
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Sunday, December 10, 2023 - Good juice, bad QPR. (Bought today at $165 in NYC, can def find cheaper but still…)
2010, banger of a year, powerful and opulent wines built for aging, but this isn’t too powerful and is drinkable now.
Dark concentrated garnet color, looks its age.
On the nose, the fruit was very constrained, with black currant and strawberry dominant, and a subtle mango note. Bbq smoke, charred meat, cedar, and crushed rocks after an hour decant. Rather nice at that point, but after ~6 hours the bottle died a bit, so no need for long decants.
On the palate the fruit is richer and juicy. Bright black plum and black cherry, licorice, crushed rocks, pencil lead, smoked meat, cedar, medium bodied, but then the tannins overwhelm the finish.
An overall decent bottle, just would have guessed it’s $40, not 4x that.
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Comment posted by finlero:
12/10/2023 2:38:00 PM - 100% agree. I recently had a bottle of this and a 2011 Pontet-Canet within a week of each other, nearly identically priced. The Lascombes was quite good, but I'd take a lesser vintage P-C 10 times out of 10.