2014 Château Lynch-Bages

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Monday, November 26, 2018 - Textbook Lynch, textbook Pauillac, and a textbook example of the 2014 vintage at its best - delivering all that personality on a frame that's lean in the best way, the figure streamlined and feminine even as the density and richness of material are just packed. The fruit is deep black cherry with a fresh, piercing snap, and it's loaded with Pauillac pencil shavings. The tannin which at first comes across cashmere-soft and loose-knit is deceptively strong and builds in grip over the course of the bottle, though it's not lost on me that some 2014s have started shutting down and this remains wide-open. The fruit, too, has a deceptively tongue-staining intensity. But all of this comes across in an effortlessly flowing fashion.

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