2015 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste

Community Tasting Notes (56) Avg Score: 92.5 points

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  12/27/2023 - Jfsiegel Likes this wine: 92 Points

  <detail pending> Perfumed nose and medium body on an elegant wine which fades in a few hours.

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  12/10/2023 - JLCFan wrote: 94 Points

  This was great. Quite savory aroma with lots of bell pepper. Fine, fruit-driven palate, still so young, and a layer of creamy oak. Prominent menthol cooling effect.

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  11/24/2023 - bdisk1235 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Had with Thanksgiving dinner. Typical Bordeaux profile, with a medium length finish and integrated tannins. Very nice, but not a lot of complexity at the moment and was mostly primary with just a hint of aged characteristics. I definitely see how some reviewers said this skewed a bit more modern than other vintages of GPL. Perfectly fine to drink now (we decanted for 4 hours) but probably best to forget about these in the cellar for another decade.

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  11/17/2023 - streethawk Likes this wine:

  Impressive restraint and balance in this warm vintage. Tobacco, cedar, cassis, graphite, and just hints of forest floor. Healthy charge of tannins on the finish ensuring that this will have a long life ahead. Needs some more time to shed some of its youthful exuberance but great with food now. Beautiful expression of Pauillac - it has the balance of elegance and power that the best wines from this region display. Who needs Lafite? Especially when I can get 12 bottles of GPL en primeur for the price of one bottle of Lafite!

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  11/16/2023 - Sun_Ship Likes this wine: 94 Points

  A beautiful modern classic - cassis and dark fruits, a touch of pencil lead, blonde tobacco and nicely integrated vanilla. Deep, juicy, fresh, lifted with some smooth-grained but grippy tannins. Suave and classic. Entering a lovely window and a lovely (relatively good value) expression of Pauillac.

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