1996 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste

Community Tasting Notes (521) Avg Score: 92.8 points

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  4/26/2024 - Mkotik Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Excellent puillac with all the typical characteristics. But a bit more merlot would have helped it round the edges a little.

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  4/21/2024 - essenceofreal wrote:

  Decanted 45 mins, put back on the bottle and off to dinner in Santa Monica. Aroma exploded in a good way. Flavor typical lovely Bdx. Lots of tobacco, leather and mostly olive tapanade. Lovely. Great balance in super flavor. However, after an hour it started to fall apart. More tannins crept in and the fruit subsided, became somewhat course. Seemed it was not exactly ideal storage, bought this a year ago.
  
  In perfect shape I'd say would be a great wine. This bottle was so until it wasn't! Great QPR that beats any new world cab by 1,000,000%

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  2/18/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 95 Points

  A robust, chewy mouthful of crème de cassis backed up by tobacco, cigar box, smoke, licorice, and herbs. Concentrated, firm, full-bodied, and drinking beautifully, this is exactly what classic Pauillac should deliver from start to it’s currant, mint and tobacco packed finish. 20 minutes of decanting and it was ready to go. Drink from 2024–2040.

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  2/16/2024 - juffer Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Served in my wine course. Cedar, light berried fragrant complex nose. Pleasing medium weight transitions nicely to a still firm finish. Wine of the night for me.

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  1/23/2024 - Lipsman wrote: 97 Points

  Amazing development from the last bottle in 2020. Beautiful aromas of smoke that follow through on the palette with sweet notes of dark berries, tangy cherry, and licorice on a lingering finish. It’s like a peacock’s tail. A brilliant wine. Drink now - 2030, but do drink now, with a properly seared steak. 🥩 🍷 Cheers!

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