By Matthew Jukes - April, 16th 2019
Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2018 - Pauillac
Score : 18,5+
There is an amazing volume of aroma when you approach this wine and it is ripe, bold, ever so slightly exotic and also all-enveloping. It alerts the senses and prepares you instantly for tasting the wine. On the palate all of the fruit notes and oak tones are marshalled perfectly and they are already in sync. Unlike some of the wines from this vintage, this is a well-drilled wine with not a molecule out of place. It is long, fine, detailed and also youthful and the tannins are some of the finest and chewiest I have seen. This bodes well. While many 2018s are unnervingly forward, but will also hold well, GPL warns the drinker that while the fruit is certainly exuberant and toothsome it would be a mistake to tackle this wine too early in its lifetime. I would leave it for at least ten years before uncorking a bottle. By this time, I think that this will be considered one of the most elegant and finely-tuned wines of the vintage.
(78 Cabernet Sauvignon, 22 Merlot) | 75% new oak | 14% alc | 40 hl/ha
Domaines F-Xavier Borie SAS
Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste
BP 82 - 33250 Pauillac
N° SIRET: 40170997700011
Tel +33 5 56 59 06 66 - Fax +33 5 56 59 22 27
Directeur de la publication et
responsable de la rédaction
Emeline Borie
Hébergeur
SA Vinium Informatique
3, rue des Corton
21420 Aloxe-Corton
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Domaines F-Xavier Borie SAS
Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste
BP 82 - 33250 Pauillac
N° SIRET: 40170997700011
Tel +33 5 56 59 06 66 - Fax +33 5 56 59 22 27
Directeur de la publication et
responsable de la rédaction
Emeline Borie
Hébergeur
SA Vinium Informatique
3, rue des Corton
21420 Aloxe-Corton
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Crédits Visites Virtuelles