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2018 Chateau Lagrange (St. Julien)Blend from France

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  • 97 Jeb Dunnuck - jebdunnuck.com
  • 93-95+ Lisa Perrotti-Brown - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  • 92-94 Neal Martin - Vinous Media
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About

Ratings:

97

"The flagship 2018 Château Lagrange is a more dense, backward, serious wine, offering an unevolved yet incredibly promising bouquet of cassis, blackcurrants, scorched earth, graphite, and violets. A big, rich, full-bodied Saint-Julien, it delivers thrilling purity of fruit, plenty of background oak, ripe, silky tannins, and a great mid-palate. This is serious stuff, but it's going to require patience. Hide bottles for 7-8 years, count yourself lucky, and enjoy over the following two decades."

93-95+ Lisa Perrotti-Brown - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2018 Lagrange opens a little closed and broody, slowly revealing cedar chest, tar, pencil shavings, camphor and fragrant earth scents with a baked plums and warm cassis core plus a hint of yeast extract. Full-bodied and jam-packed with black fruits and earthy accents, it has a solid frame of firm, chunky tannins and just enough freshness, finishing on a persistent mineral note.

92-94 Neal Martin - Vinous Media

The 2018 Lagrange is deep in colour. It has a plush and generous bouquet with blueberry and black cherry fruit, a touch of clove and menthol developing with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins and very pure fruit. This has a Burgundy-like allure and though there is some new oak dominating the finish, there is sufficient fruit to support that. This is potentially a very lovely Lagrange, one that I suspect will drink sooner than other recent vintages. (3.53pH, 14.6% alcohol)

Product Detail

Item # 122222
Country France
Region Bordeaux
Sub-Region St Julien
Ratings

97 - Jeb Dunnuck - jebdunnuck.com

93-95+ - Lisa Perrotti-Brown - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

92-94 - Neal Martin - Vinous Media

Vintage 2018
Color Red
ABV 14.5%
Varietal(s) Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot
Size 750mL
Closure Cork
Features
Taste currant, blackberry, cherry, bell pepper, olive, asparagus, spice, ginger, oak, vanilla, black cherry, plum, smoke, toast and tar
Nose currant, blackberry, cherry, cedar, cigar box, violet, rose, truffle, earth, coffee and leather