2014 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste

Community Tasting Notes (114) Avg Score: 92.5 points

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  4/4/2024 - RockinCabs wrote: 91 Points

  Nose: Truffle, pen ink, blackberry and cassis. Opens slowly revealing a bit of smokey herb and graphite, but the nose is dark and concentrated at the moment. Palate: Entering a decent drinking window and the tannin is getting less fierce. Plum, blackberry and graphite notes with some river rock and gravel as well. Dense on the palate, but has a lot of elegance.
  
  This was performing quite well today, and has a personality that is halfway between a Pontet Canet and d'Armailhac today. Serious yet playful.

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  3/21/2024 - acidqueen wrote: 92 Points

  We decided to pull an early bottle of this since we have two cases. I rarely expect much from top level Bordeaux at 10 years and this was no different. Still, very enjoyable now and I expect the score to go up in the future. Decanted 90 minutes and drank with dinner. First whiff was decidedly oaky! This tempered over the decant but was still prominent. Good black fruit and cedar notes but clearly very young at this point. Good acid. Still very reticent. An interesting test, but not a wine I want to drink in less than 5 years and more likely 10 for my tastes. I want to see the oak integrate and the wine relax overall. I expect it will be much more enjoyable and I look forward to it.

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  3/21/2024 - ChristoBretts Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Decanted, let sit for two hours before drinking. Oregano and railroad tie on the nose, loads of pencil lead and black fruit on the palate, silky tannin. Continued to evolve in the glass. I was surprised this is so open for business; I was expecting something a bit on the young side, but I agree with other reviews that this is in a nice window now. Very pleasing. No rush, but no reason to hold back either.
  
  Update: I saved a glass for day 2 and found that day 1 is better after a few hour decant.

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  3/15/2024 - FredericoWines Likes this wine: 93 Points

  I know it's still young at less than 10 years but still want to try at its adolescent stage. Decanted for two hours and drank over another two hours. At opening, it gave lots of red fruits (cassis, cherry and plum), dominated by nose of vanilla, cigar box, pencil shavings and light new leather. Tasted complex and definitely high tannins. Two hours past it was still fruity with enhanced vanilla and cedar fragrance, which gradually faded when into the last hours with spice and more leather kicking in. Overall an excellent Pauillac with upside ahead. Won't open my last two bottles until 2028+.

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  3/11/2024 - pgb67 wrote: 94 Points

  A very impressive wine! Black fruit and pencil shavings on a pretty nose followed by a palate bursting with black fruit, graphite, and oak spice, and well integrated tannins. Lots of drive and length. At 10 years old, this is in a nice drinking window and definitely does not feel too young.

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