Chateau Grand-Puy-Lacoste - Pauillac 2022 (Pre-arrival) (750ml)
Price: $100.99
| Producer | Chateau Grand-Puy-Lacoste |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pauillac |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 7767 |
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79% Cabernet Sauvignon - 21% Merlot
Chateau Grand-Puy-Lacoste Description
The Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2022 is a deep bright and intense red/purple colour. The bouquet is of flowers, violets in particular, spicy and with very ripe fruits such as blueberries and blackberries. It is completed by a fresh minerality and a note of graphite. On the palate, there’s a crescendo of flavours, smooth, dense and complex. This 2022 has fine balance, notable freshness and a long finish sustained by powerful but melted tannins. Once again, this remarkable vintage allows Grand-Puy-Lacoste to demonstrate the capacity of our terroir to summon from our vines grapes with richness, complexity and elegance. This vintage is unique, impossible at the moment to compare with any other! The combination of the ripeness of the fruit and the freshness on the palate makes it a wine of real stature and great longevity.
James Suckling: 97 Points
Licorice with tapenade, cassis, roasted spices and a touch of bergamot and pencil shavings. Full-bodied and structured, this has filigreed tannins in a very dusty, almost powdery form. Really youthful and long. Juicy and compact with spot-on balance. 79% cabernet sauvignon, 21% merlot. Give it at least three years to unwind and develop complexity.
Wine Advocate: 97 Points
A blend of 79% Cabernet Sauvignon and 21% Merlot, the 2022 Grand-Puy-Lacoste is a brilliant classic in the making, wafting from the glass with aromas of dark berries, violets and pencil shavings, followed by a medium to full-bodied, layered and concentrated palate that exhibits beautiful structural refinement and purity of fruit. Classy and integrated, it is somewhat reminiscent of a modern-day and less forbiddingly structured version of this estate's brilliant 1982.
Wine Spectator: 96 Points
This version shows the floral side of the vintage, with a vibrant mix of iris, violet and rose petal notes leading the way, backed by a core of pure and racy red and black currant preserves. There's a well-integrated singed cedar note running along its flanks and a long beam of iron driving the finish. Textbook. Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
Vinous: 94 Points
The 2022 Grand-Puy-Lacoste is stellar, especially in the way it melds together the natural richness of the year with its classic style. Well defined, layered and energetic, the Grand-Puy-Lacoste is all class. Time in the glass further reveals its detailed personality. This is such a polished and nuanced Pauillac, even in 2022.
