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2014 Echo de Lynch-Bages, Pauillac, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
Ready - youthful
Jancis Robinson MW
16.5/20
Neal Martin MW
88/100
James Suckling
92/100
Neal Martin MW
85/100
Product: 20148004820
2014 Echo de Lynch-Bages, Pauillac, Bordeaux

Description

73% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot

One of our favourite Echo de Lynch Bages for many years, this wine is now very much the baby brother of the Grand Vin itself. Twenty-seven percent of the harvest was used to create the wine this year. Well proportioned, fresh, energetic and cooling, it is ripe and opulent in 2014. Soft, succulent, moreish and brimming with dark damson fruit, this is wonderfully quaffable. It is a fine introduction to the wines of the great Ch. Lynch Bages estate and really well proportioned.

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Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2014
Maturity Ready - youthful
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Château Lynch-Bages

Critics reviews

Jancis Robinson MW 16.5/20
Very dark crimson. Rich, sweet and really rather sumptuous nose. The acid level is still notable, however. Mid-weight.Drink 2020 - 2030jancis_robinson_mw MW, JancisRobinson.com (September 2015)
Drink 2020 - 2030
Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com (Sep 2015)
Neal Martin MW 88/100
The 2014 Echo de Lynch Bages has quite a powerful bouquet with blackberry, blueberry, sage and cedar aromas, not quite as defined as the 2014 Clos du Marquis tasted alongside, but there is ample fruit, and it is not pushed too hard. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin and well-judged acidity, coming across as grippy in the mouth with impressive density. It is maybe a bit rough around the edges, but this wine has good presence and mass, and it feels balanced and fresh towards the long finish. This showed relatively poorly in barrel, and just after bottling; however, this is much more promising. Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting.Drink 2018 - 2026Neil Martin, Vinous.com.com (March 2018)
Drink 2020 - 2030
Neal Martin MW, Vinous.com (Mar 2018)
James Suckling 92/100
Aromas of currants and fresh herbs. Medium to full body, a soft, juicy texture, and a long finish. Juicy yet tight. Excellent second wine. Better in 2020james_suckling, jamessuckling_com (February 2017)
Drink 2020 - 2030
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com (Feb 2017)
Neal Martin MW 85/100
The 2014 Echo de Lynch Bages felt a little simplistic on the nose and lacked the presence of its peers, such as say Rserve de la Comtesse. The palate is medium-bodied with grippy tannin, perhaps a little rustic in style, although there is a pleasant piquancy on the finish that pulls up short. Drink over the next three of four years.Neil Martin - 31/03/2017
Drink 2020 - 2030
Neal Martin MW, (Mar 2017)

About this wine

Chateau Lynch-Bages

Château Lynch Bages, a 5ème Cru Classé, is one of the best-known Médoc estates and has always had a particularly strong following on this side of the English Channel. Since 1973 it has been owned by the enigmatic Jean-Michel Cazes and is now run by his son, Jean-Charles.
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Pauillac

Pauillac

The aristocrat of the Médoc boasts 75 percent of the region’s First Growths, with Grand Cru Classés representing 84 percent of production. Pauillac's First Growths each have their own unique characteristics: Ch. Lafite Rothschild produces the region’s most aromatically-complex and subtly-flavoured wine, while – with its high percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon – Ch. Mouton Rothschild can produce a decadently rich, fleshy and exotic wine.
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