2022 Grand Puy Lacoste
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This expressive and bold Grand Puy Lacoste is clearly one of the very best to come out of the property in recent years. A blend of 79% Cabernet Sauvignon and 21% Merlot, it has stunning depth. The nose presents a herbaceous and earthy character with notes of pencil shavings. The polished red fruit on the palate carries itself with ease all the way to the long finish thanks to an undercurrent of vibrant acidity.
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William Kelley, Wine Advocate
James Suckling
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79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Merlot. Cask sample. Deep colour. Marked Cabernet nose. Cassis with a vibrant freshness. Juicy fruit and well-integrated tannins with a more textural feel this year. Reserved, measured, structured. Identity unchanged. (JL)
Flowers, blackberries, spice, cigar box, black currants, cherries, and cedar open the perfume. On the palate, the wine is sweet, fresh, spicy, chewy, and almost creamy in the dark, red, pit fruit finish. The wine is long, with intensity, complexity, and aging ability. The wine is a blend of 79% Cabernet Sauvignon and 21% Merlot, 14.2% ABV, 3.57 pH. Picking took place September 7 - September 23. This is the earliest harvest in the history of the estate. Yields were 38 hectoliters per hectare. Only 60% of the harvest was placed into the Grand Vin. This wine has the potential to score even higher when it is in bottle.
The 2022 Grand-Puy-Lacoste is a very pretty wine. Forward and quite showy, the 2022 comes across as a wine that will drink well with minimal cellaring. Succulent dark cherry, plum, leather, incense and dried herbs are nicely delineated. There's good complexity and depth, but it is the radiance of the year that is front and center. Hints of blood orange, pomegranate, spice and a pretty rose petal/violet note linger
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About the producer
The plateau of Grand-Puy is west of the village, above the hamlet of Bages. This outcrop of the terrain (called a "puy" in the old local dialect) rises to around 20 meters above sea level. Grand-Puy-Lacoste enjoys an exceptional terroir.