2018 Château Grand Puy Lacoste

Cherries and walnuts with dried flowers on the nose. It’s medium-to full-bodied with very fine tannins, creamy texture and a bright, vivid finish. Plenty of currant and tar. Such polish and beauty. Drink after 2023. (2021)

A beautiful Pauillac, the 2018 Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste has a classic nose of ripe blackcurrants, scorched earth, cedarwood, and tobacco. This carries to a medium to full-bodied 2018 offering wonderful balance, ripe, polished tannins, and gorgeous purity of fruit. A wine that grows on you with time in the glass, it has building mid-palate depth and tannins, again, terrific balance, remarkable purity of fruit, and outstanding length on the finish. It should round into form in 4-5 years and keep for 20+. (2021)

„...The 2018 Grand-Puy-Lacoste is deep garnet-purple in color. It leaps with gregarious scents of baked black plums, fruitcake, and potpourri, giving way to a core of warm cassis and sandalwood. Full-bodied, the palate has a sturdy frame of grainy tannins and bold freshness supporting the generous black fruit preserves flavors, finishing long and opulent.”