Chateau Lascombes 2020

Professional Ratings

• 97 Wine Enthusiast
  Powerful tannins add to this wine's structure and to its potential rich fruitiness. Ripe black currants and the dryness of the texture are going to work together into a harmonious wine, needing time.
  Barrel Sample: 95-97
• 95 James Suckling

  Aromas of crushed blackcurrants and cherries with dried Provence herbs, lavender, raw walnuts and spiced cedar. Graphite, too. Full and muscular with a broad-shouldered, velvety tannin structure that goes on for minutes. Textured and chalky with a lingering finish. Very polished. 55% cabernet sauvignon, 40% merlot and 5% petit verdot.

• 95 Jeb Dunnuck

  Tasted on multiple occasions, the 2020 Chateau Lascombes is clearly another brilliant wine from this chateau that readers will love. Sporting a deep purple hue as well as a classic bouquet of cassis, dried flowers, freshly sharpened pencils, and obvious minerality, it hits the palate with medium to full-bodied richness, has a layered, elegant mouthfeel, lots of building tannins, and a great finish. It's going to need 4-6 years at a minimum but is some serious Margaux brilliance that will have 30 years of longevity. Best After 2027.

• 94 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2020 Lascombes comes skipping out of the glass with bright, cheery scents of raspberry coulis, blackberry preserves and fresh blackcurrants, plus suggestions of pencil shavings, dried roses and charcuterie with a waft of bouquet garni. The medium to full-bodied palate has great tension and energy, delivering crunchy red and black fruit layers and a firm, grainy frame, finishing long with an herbal lift.
  Barrel Sample: 92-94
• 92 Decanter
  A château that is used to finding charm and exuberance whatever the vintage, and it has avoided overly concentrated flavours. There is plenty of charm to the cassis and damson fruit but they are a little heavy through the mid palate which emphasises the grilled coffee and chocolate and adds bitter touches to the end of palate. Serious.
  Barrel Sample: 92
• 91 Wine Spectator

  Open-knit and direct, with a friendly display of plum and cassis notes carried by a polished structure. Ends with light violet and singed vanilla details.