2005 Château Lascombes

Community Tasting Note

Eric Becker Does not like this wine:

90 Points

Friday, October 16, 2020 - Unfortunately I cannot share the enthusiasm of other more recent reviews here. Maybe my bottle, which has been stored since release at lowly 11 °C, was still too young and undeveloped, boasting predominantly sweet black fruit and only some hints of a mushroomy complexity. But my main issue with the wine is that it feels just too extracted in the mouth. Slightly adstringent and biting, not as supple and fluid as I would hope for in a Margaux Cru Classé. The wine may be impressive with its immortal black colour and full flavours, however it seems a bit overdone and not true to its appellation. I have one bottle left, which I am not going to touch for a minimum of five years. Maybe something magical will happen by then?!

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Comment posted by Mhbeaune:

10/16/2020 12:07:00 PM - I know exactly what you are saying. You have certainly touched on something I have had which I
Have put down to bottle variation.
Comment posted by Eric Becker:

10/16/2020 1:40:00 PM - Thanks for commenting! It has been my first bottle of this wine, so I cannot rule out bottle-variation. Certainly hope so!
Comment posted by walkerjfw:

11/10/2020 1:18:00 PM - Thanks for your comments, I was considering opening a 3L this coming weekend for some friends at a (socially distanced) dinner...sounds like the wine may be going through a closed phase?
Comment posted by Eric Becker:

11/10/2020 11:35:00 PM - Hi walkjfw, I am not sure if the wine was in a closed phase as I have not had it before and cannot compare. It seemed young to me and in your 3 litre the development may have been even slower. My main issue was probably that I did not like the wine's style in general. Too extracted, too engineered.