Country: France Region: Bordeaux (St.Julien) Varietal: Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon Vintage: 2022 Colour: Red Style: Medium Body, Dry Producer: Chateau Lagrange Description:"The 2022 Lagrange is brilliant, ranking alongside the 2020, 2019 and 2016 as one of this over-performing estate's finest recent vintages. Revealing aromas of dark cherries, cassis, violets and pencil shavings, it's medium to full-bodied, velvety and layered, with a deep core of fruit, beautifully refined but youthfully assertive tannins and a long, mouth-watering finish."94-96/100 points William Kelley, Wine Advocate (April 2022)"The 2022 Lagrange was picked between 8 and 30 September, it ages in 60% new oak for a planned 21 months. It has an almost clinical bouquet, with very well defined blackberry and blueberry fruit, graphite and crushed stone. Quite a gap in quality between this and the Fiefs de Lagrange this year. The palate is extremely pure with cashmere tannins, black cherry fruit infused by blood orange, lightly spiced, hints of white pepper toward a very concentrated, fine-boned finish. This will require several years in bottle, but it will be worth waiting for. A serious and very able Lagrange that should not be under-estimated. Drinking window 2029-2055."95-97/100 points Neal Martin, Vinous (May 2023)"A Lagrange with real depth and restraint, feels so perfectly Left Bank, really impressive, a wine that shows the true possibilities of the vintage. There is a build up of tannins through the palate, but also a juiciness and a gorgeous cassis, bilberry and fresh cherry pit seduction, with huge confidence and clear ageing potential. Drinking window 2030-2046."96/100 points Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux (May 2023)
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