2022 Lascombes
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Tasting Notes
Excellent quality, a delicious wine majoring on blackberry and spiced plum, with the increased Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend pulling its weight in terms of depth of flavour. Brambled fruit dominates, with a hedgerow character that adds welcome freshness and acidity in such an exuberant year, coupled with layers of black chocolate, fennel, liqourice, violet and slate. 60% new oak. The only one in the lineup blended by Axel Heinz, working alongside technical director Delphine Barboux (but the 2023 vintage will be the first one with Heinz present during growing season also). Harvest September 7 to 27 reflective of a hot and dry year. The percentage of 1st wine from the 120ha estate down to 40% in this vintage, reflective of the new direction taken by Lawrence Wine Estates. Julien Viaud consultant.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
More reviews and scores
The 2022 Château Lascombes is a ripe, powerful wine that holds onto a terrific sense of purity and freshness. Black fruits, smoky oak, lead pencil, and tobacco all define the aromatics, and it's medium to full-bodied, with a layered, elegant mouthfeel, ripe, building tannins, and a great finish. A killer bottle of wine, it’s going to benefit from short-term cellaring. Tasted twice.
Aromas of oak, spices, overripe berries, graphite and pencil shavings stand out in this modern-styled, rather demonstrative 2022 Lascombes. Medium to full-bodied, chunky and over-extracted, the wine has a dense, rich, mouthfeel but a rather firm finish with prominent new-oak flavors.
The 2022 Lascombes is a bold, sumptuous wine. Inky dark fruit, cloves, chocolate and copious French oak fill out the layers. Soft contours wrap it all together. As always, Lascombes is done in a flamboyant style. It will be interesting to see the direction new Estate Manager Axel Heinz takes when he assumes his post this summer.
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About the producer
With vines spread across 40 different parcels throughout the appellation, Ch. Lascombes is one of the most fragmented but also largest Médoc estates, with 120 hectares of vines, now owned by the MACSF insurance company.