2016 Chateau Lynch-Bages [JS97][WA97][WS97][D96][WE95][JD95]

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2016 Chateau Lynch-Bages [JS97][WA97][WS97][D96][WE95][JD95]Producer: Chateau Lynch Bages Region: Pauillac, Bordeaux, France Blend: 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc, 2% Petit Verdot Year: 2016 James Suckling, 97 Points "Very rich and exotic with blackberry, black tea, graphite and lead pencil aromas. Full bodied, dense and structured with lots of ripe tannins and a long, flavorful finish of currants and forest floor, combined with fresh mushrooms and bark. Needs four to five years to show

Varietal: Muscat of Alexandria

If by no means lacking in the yeasty richness of defined champenization

This result is achieved through craft methods that have become rare

beautifully integrated acidity

with flavors of honeyed fruit and hints of yeast

but then revealing the grape’s full

Among the grand cru sites of La Morra

wild blackberry preserves and lastly

It will work famously with food owing to the slight finishing grip expected of its genre

grown in the chalk and clay soils of Verzenay

Mise Tardive refers to the wine undergoing a longer elevage with extended lees ageing

typical of whole bunches