2019 Lacoste Borie
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The 2019 Lacoste-Borie is a step up over the 2017, offering more freshness and purity, with a round, layered, absolutely delicious style. Red and black fruits, spice, flowers, and hints of tobacco all define the aromantics, and it's medium-bodied, balanced, and as easy to drink as they come. It will evolve for another decade.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider
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The 2019 Lacoste-Borie is a wine of immense charm. Wafting from the glass with aromas of cassis, licorice and sweet spices, loamy soil and cigar wrapper, it’s medium to full-bodied, fleshy and seamless, with ripe tannins, succulent acids and a round, giving profile.
The 2019 Lacoste-Borie was impressive as a barrel sample sent to my home last spring. Now in bottle, it has a vivacious, quite floral, almost Margaux-like bouquet that bursts from the glass, featuring raspberry, rooibos and black currant aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with good concentration, a little spicier than I remember and a little softer in the finish, yet with good length and admirable harmony. It should drink nicely after a couple of years. 14.3% alcohol.
About the producer
In 1978 the Borie family took over Grand-Puy-Lacoste and Xavier Borie has been making exceptional wines here ever since. With 58 hectares of vines around the château, this is a wine with real Pauillac style.