2006 Lascombes
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Tasting notes
Tasted at Bordeaux Index's annual 10-Year On tasting in London. The 2006 Château Lascombes has an open and generous bouquet: red berry fruit, cured Italian meat, quite savoury compared to its peers. The palate is medium-bodied with ripe red cherry and blueberry fruit, quite sweet in the mouth with a gentle, quite sensual finish. It is not a complex Margaux, although there is an appealing plushness to the texture and it has upheld better freshness on the finish than I initially thought. That said, a bottle subsequently tasted blind was below par and was besmirched with a tinny veneer. Tasted April 2016.
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Robert Parker
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Tasted blind. Lively, fresh and racy on the nose. A tad angular on the palate with a whiff of gunpowder. Chewy tannins but some life and potential for future improvement. (JR)
Very dark. Thick and meat extract on the nose. Very firm and positive and confident. Juicy and appetising, with a beginning, middle and end. Return to form for this château? (JR)
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.