Pauillac

A dryly elegant wine which really delighted us with the way it proclaims its origin: intensity of dry fruit flavour, classy oak and élevage, but it is a great terroir speaking through the dry str...(read more)

A high proportion of Cabernet is immediately evident. Rich with lots of volume. Sweet blackberry and bramble, vigourous and weighty. Really good. Proper wine. Tannins present but not over-extract...(read more)

65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc, 1% Petit Verdot - exactly the same blend as the previous three vintages. Deep but not excessively dark colour, round, 'toffeed', gentle. The...(read more)

Haut Batailley (GPL's stablemate) having been so good, it was hard to believe the extent to which Grand Puy Lacoste moves into another dimension. Lovely expression of fruit, floral, elegant and fat, wit...(read more)

Deep glass-coating thick ruby colour. Very intense nose with a big mass of flavours. Not massive but very sexy. Opulent fruit and smooth tannins. Very Lynch but with an extra elegance. Finishes o...(read more)

Very rich, very solidly constructed, masses of rounded tannins. Black fruit, pencil box and pencil lead, mineral, velvety. Iron fist in velvet glove. Spiced cassis. Extremely impressive and very...(read more)

Less massive than the Ormes de Pez in the same stable, Lynch somehow managed to taste reductive every time I tasted it. Either that or it is a little green. Very intense, lean cassis, very dense...(read more)

A superb Pichon Lalande, all in finesse, super-fine tannins, fresh and liquid whilst having no lack of volume, and the flavour builds nicely in the mouth. Rich but not remotely solid, it is very...(read more)

An utterly profound Lynch-Bages, this wine continues to remind me of a hypothetical blend of the 1990 and 1989. Interestingly, when I asked Jean-Michel Cazes to rank his top four vintages of Lync...(read more)

Deep colour, intense fruit, a purity which is discreet and emphatic. Fruit so intense it verges on the medicinal. Very long, with the intensity carried on to the finish. Not just massive, a wine...(read more)

'Although I have always rated the 1990 higher than the 1989, I was stunned by just how fabulous the wine was showing in my tasting in late 1996. It possesses an opaque ruby/purple colour, as well...(read more)

Lively and fine. Juicy. There is real life to this. Lift and grace. Not grand perhaps, but a lovely 'fond' and should be a good drink within five years. Blackcurrant fruit trails the finish, whic...(read more)