Chateau Lynch Bages Pauillac 2022 (750ml)
Product price
$199.99
Description
Château Lynch-Bages 2022 is a Bordeaux blend from Pauillac, one of the Left Bank's most structured and age-worthy appellations. This vintage shows the ripeness and power that define the 2022 growing season, built for the cellar rather than immediate consumption.
The nose opens with blackcurrant, mint, and dried lavender alongside graphite and thyme, with cool mineral notes of wet stone and pencil lead running underneath. The palate is generous and chewy, loaded with ripe black fruit that feels fleshy and concentrated, yet the wine maintains real precision and focus. The tannins are substantial but refined, with a texture that turns velvety in the mouth before becoming slightly grippy in the finish. There's tension and freshness here that will stretch and soften over time. This is a wine built with patience in mind, four to five years of bottle age will allow the structure to settle and the layers to sing.
Product Details
| Category | Wine |
| Color | Red |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pauillac |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend Red |
| Producer | Chateau Lynch-Bages |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Size | 750 ML |
| Subtype | Still |
Expert Reviews
A terrific Lynch from a hot vintage with blackcurrants, mint, dried lavender, graphite and thyme on the nose and palate. Medium- to full-bodied, it shows fantastic tannins with a lovely texture that reminds me of cashmere, becoming slightly chewy in the finish. Give this four to five years of bottle age. Try after 2028.
Ripe and generous on the palate, this is chewy, crunchy and alive. Ripe fruit is there - chewy and sweet black currants and cherries - fleshy and filling - as is concentration of flavours, but there's a delicate layering of elements which builds the wine on the palate giving power but also focus and precision. Still feels a little shy, with tension there in the funnelling of flavours and a relatively crisp finish but this will elongate in time. Cool blueberries, wet stones, pencil lead and graphite give the mineral touches. No overt heat, oak or spice which also is excellent. One for the long haul. Built with ageing in mind I think.
The 2022 Lynch-Bages has real class on the nose: blackberry, bilberry, graphite and light minerally notes, with much more freshness and vibrancy here. The palate is very well balanced with fine tannins, real intensity and just as much elegance, persistent with a captivating, quite spicy finish. This is an outstanding Lynch-Bages for the ages. Tasted blind at the Southwold tasting in London.