- View Wine Selection
- Advanced Search
- Recent Arrivals
- Join Mailing List
- Gallery
- My Portfolio : Login
- RSS Feed
- First Growths
- Download Wine List
Wine Regions
- Red Bordeaux
- White Bordeaux
- Red Burgundy
- White Burgundy
- Red Rhone
- White Rhone
- Champagne
- Alsace
- Loire
- French Regional
- Italy
- Spain
- Vintage Port
- Portugal
- Germany
- Austria
- Australia
- United States
- South Africa
- Miscellaneous
- Madeira
Grand Puy Lacoste
Bordeaux
Burgundy
Like Lynch Bages this is another Pauillac chateau punching well above its fifth growth status. Consistently on a par with the ‘super seconds’ the wines of Grand Puy Lacoste represent fantastic value. See this note for the 1995 vintage by Robert Parker, 95 points:
‘Another unbelievably rich, multidimensional, broad-shouldered wine, with slightly more elegance and less weight than the powerhouse 1996, this gorgeously proportioned, medium to full-bodied, fabulously ripe, rich, cassis-scented and flavored Grand-Puy-Lacoste is a beauty. This classic Pauillac is a worthy rival to the other-worldly 1996. Anticipated maturity: 2002-2025. Wow! What extraordinary wines Grand-Puy-Lacoste has produced in both 1995 and 1996. At present, I have a marginal preference for the blockbuster 1996, but I am not about to argue with anybody who prefers the 1995! Both are compelling wines.’
| Vint | Description | Cl | ? | Cs | Bt | Cs | Bt | + |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tasting Notes: This excellent offering displays sweet black currant notes intermixed with notions of licorice, scorched earth, and spicy herbs. Medium-bodied and elegant with abundant fruit on the attack and mid-palate, and light to moderate tannin, it should drink well for 10-15 years. The Wine Advocate #171 Jun-07. Parker Points: 89 Drinking Period: 2007-2022 |
||||||||
Tasting Notes: A light wine by the standards of this property, this herbaceous, spicy, red currant and plum-scented wine shows weedy notes of green tea intermixed with cherries and some washed-out red currants. It is a pleasant, picnic-styled Grand-Puy-Lacoste to drink during its first 5-7 years of life. Wine Advocate # 158 Apr 2005 Parker Points: 86 Drinking Period: 2005 - 2012 |
||||||||
Tasting Notes: A light wine by the standards of this property, this herbaceous, spicy, red currant and plum-scented wine shows weedy notes of green tea intermixed with cherries and some washed-out red currants. It is a pleasant, picnic-styled Grand-Puy-Lacoste to drink during its first 5-7 years of life. Wine Advocate # 158 Apr 2005 Parker Points: 86 Drinking Period: 2005 - 2012 |
||||||||
Tasting Notes: When I first tasted the 1989 Grand-Puy-Lacoste in this blind tasting I thought it possessed a Graves-like tobacco/mineral character. In contrast to the blockbuster, full-blown, massive wines produced by this estate in 1990 and 1982, the medium-weight 1989 is elegant, spicy, evolved, and already revealing plenty of cedar and cassis fruit. A delicious, generously-endowed, low acid wine, it will offer mature drinking now and over the next 12-15 years.Wine Advocate # 109 Feb 1997 Parker Points: 89 Drinking Period: 1994 - 2015 |
||||||||