CHÂTEAU GRAND PUY LACOSTE

2009 5ème Cru Classé Pauillac

Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Sub-district Haut Médoc
Village Pauillac
Classification 5ème Cru Classé
ABV 14%

80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc. Very deep colour again, flowing, glass-coating ruby to purple. Nose has an edge to it compared to Haut-Batailley - a rawness, though its never excessive. Cool and fresh, with black cherry and blackberry, coulis de cassis, intense, harmonious, yet excitingly expressive. Fab! Rating: 95 L&S (Apr 2010)


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Generous, juicy, a vintage that I am starting to often prefer - at least right now - to the 2010, but it is not quite pipping it for me at Grand Puy Lacoste. You'd be hard-pressed to argue with this wine though, it is delicious, balanced, full of blackberry, blueberry and raspberry fruits. Holds its line right through the mid palate without blinking, luscious dark chocolate-covered tannins, and manages to convey the savoury power of Pauillac even in such a warm year. 70% new oak, harvest 24 September to 7 October. Drinking range: 2021 - 2042 Rating: 96 Jane Anson, www.janeanson.com (Oct 2021)

The 2009 Grand Puy-Lacoste has a clean and precise bouquet with graphite infused red berry fruit, woodland scents, fern and touches of autumn leaves. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin, quite bold and assertive with dried blood and ferrous notes infusing the red fruit towards the persistent finish. You could broach this now although I would prefer to leave another couple of years, when it may well deserve a higher score. Tasted blind at Farr Vintners’ 2009 Bordeaux tasting. Drinking range: 2022 - 2040 Rating: 93 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Mar 2019)

The 2009 Grand Puy Lacoste is a magnificent wine for the vintage. It is extremely well defined on the nose, almost pixelated with stunning mineralité threaded through the blackberry, black olive and limestone scents. It is more reserved at first compared to other 2009s, but that bouquet begins motoring after 10-20 minutes with graphite notes becoming ever stronger. The palate is full-bodied and under-pinned by a chassis of firm tannins cloaked in sumptuous black fruit infused with black tea and graphite. It almost has the character of a 2010: much less flamboyant than its peers, but just as compelling. Wonderful. Drink 2023-2045 Drinking range: 2023 - 2045 Rating: 95 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Oct 2014)

Château Grand Puy Lacoste

Pauillac Cinquième Cru 1855.

If there's an estate that can rival Lynch Bages for the crown of most over-performing 5th Growth, it would be Grand-Puy-Lacoste.

The "Grand Puy" is the low gravelly hill on which the vineyards sit. In 1750 a portion were sold to Pierre Ducasse and became, obviously, Château Grand Puy Ducasse while the rest, after a couple of name changes owing to inheritance by daughters, became Château Grand Puy Lacoste.

The Borie family bought into Grand Puy Lacoste in 1978 and began quite a renaissance for the property.

Just a few kilometres from the town of Pauillac, the vineyards of Chateau Grand-Puy-Lacoste total roughly 36 hectares (90 acres) with Cabernet Sauvignon making up 75% of the total plantings and the rest belonging to Merlot (20%) and Cabernet Franc (5%). Typical of the region, the vineyard consists of a deep gravel top soil on a limestone base.

Production is about 12,000 cases of wine in an average year. Fermentation takes place in temperature controlled stainless steel tanks, and then the wines are placed into oak barrels (50% new) for 18 months of aging.

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