1962 Château Lynch-Bages

Community Tasting Notes (21) Avg Score: 89.9 points

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  4/24/2022 - J'agnes Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Saved this bottle for my 60th birthday - came to me originally via the clearance of Mary Quant’s wine cellar. The cork came out in one using prongs and despite the deterioration visible under the capsule was still in good condition after the first 10mm. The colour is garnet for sure but amazingly still vivid and bright. Clear rim as one might expect but very promising to the eye. The nose is tertiary - all cedar wood and mellow tobacco. Wonderful palate - savoury with a good salty saline zip. There is fruit - it’s stewed blackberry and apple - nice long finish. Truly an astonishing thing of beauty. A precious wine - it’s always a privilege to drink a wine of such age which retains a poise and elegance that literally takes your breath away.

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  2/26/2022 - sdr wrote: 89 Points

  Why 62 is less than 61 (Wine Watch, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida): A chunky example of Lynch Bages with a lot of charcoal. Solid. Reasonable breadth of flavor and good tannins and acidity. Yet somehow it’s not totally clean even though you can drink it without gastric distress.

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  11/14/2020 - vinhonotte wrote: flawed

  Fine Wines SG - Grand Cru Discovery Pack (Delivered to Home): Medium garnet, and significant browning and fading at edges. Nose of cooked cranberry, caramel, dried flowers, and the soy sauce vinegary notes of an overoxidised wine. Similarly a rather sour cherried palate with herbal and coffee notes, and heightened alcohol burn, and a simplistic finish, pointing to overoxidation. Probably would have been much better if it were not that oxidised

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  1/3/2018 - Herr Big Ben Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Perfect and classic claret!
  The level was upper mid-shoulder.
  Lots of leather and old woods in the nose. Perfect matured but had its peak 5-10y ago.
  But for a “off-vintage“ this old just so delicious and drinking with a massive flow!
  Elegant and fresh on the palette always forcing another sip.
  Well done old boy!
  This is what I love to drink

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  7/1/2016 - englishman's claret wrote: 96 Points

  Beautiful bottle (good cork, top shoulder) and beautiful contents. No doubt past its prime, but if you enjoy old claret this is a real treat - still so much Lynch Bages character. While there now is a lot of mahogany/treacle old-wine notes, the score is really derived from the truly exquisite cassis, mint, pencil, leather, chocolate notes that remain. It's completely polished in its old age; no seams. The palate has seen better days, but with these old clarets it's mainly about the nose anyway. I could certainly understand a lot of people not appreciating this, but I found so much to love. I imagine that the 85 will be a lot like this in 25 years or so. This, like the 66 Mouton, also underscores the point that some of these old wines really do need time to open out in the decanter; this required about 30 minutes to open fully and lasted beautifully for the hour and a half until we had finished the bottle. However if you have any, it is clearly time to drink them now.

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