2010 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste

Community Tasting Notes (129) Avg Score: 93.3 points

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  5/19/2024 - sean20waldo Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Still a young wine, in good balance with great intensity and classic cassis taste. Big Smooth tannins and great fruit. Serious wine just starting to take on tertiary notes. Lacks a little complexity for a higher acore

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  5/16/2024 - Rossodio Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Decanted for an hour or so and then back into bottle for an hour and a half, then decanted again and drunk over the next 3 hours. On opening and throughout, the nose is wonderful if a bit compact for right now. The wine is tight as nails with oak overlying on opening. During second decant was unapproachable and even a bit bitter and acidic for the first hour. By the end of hour 3 it was starting to open up more and good, with a dense core of primary flavors just shedding their fat and secondaries starting to come through. At thay point it was awesome but there wasnt enough left. I would either decant for 8+ hours or wait 10 years or more on this, but it will be classic.
  
  First of four bottles. Bricktop's.

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  3/3/2024 - k H i L o Likes this wine: 93 Points

  93.5
  C'est vraiment grand et ce n'est pas fini ! Il a un boulevard d'évolution devant lui.

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  12/30/2023 - Motz wrote: 94 Points

  Tasted over two days, alongside the same vintage d'Armailhac and Pontet-Canet. Opened, sampled blind, called it, then left to slow-o for a few hours.
  
  First impression? Excessive oak. Impression throughout the first day? Defiled by oak. So much lumber, particularly compared to the other offerings, that all attempts to evaluate the fruit and terroir imparted substance proved frustrating. Also noteworthy: Did not know the assemblage...and still do not...but this showed the most red fruits of the three.
  
  The wine took an interesting turn by the second day. The oak had integrated somewhat, which imparted a certain creamy, textural weight. In this way, it proved an intriguing teaser for the Pontet-Canet.
  
  At the time of this note, this wine had a CT score of 93.3. The d'Armailhac, at the same time, had a CT score of 91.7. Indeed, I scored this a grudging 94 points, based on its second-day presentation. Qualitatively, given the wine's modernity (timber), the delta makes some since. Quantitatively, i.e., traditional, terroir-driven, rustic substance, the delta is, frankly, laughable.
  
  Why corrupt high-quality Left Bank fruit to such an extent that creamy, textural weight becomes a wine's calling card? Presumably, money. C'est la vie!
  
  This bottle had about a decade of evolution ahead. Wines in this style, however, above average extraction and heavily oaked, tend to throw a lot sediment and turn boring after a certain point. Equal chances that this wine will do so, before or by 2032-2035.

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  11/24/2023 - JRavn Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Excellent, still youth, still primary notes with dark red and black berries. Tertiary notes more subtle.

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