Ranked #18 of 58 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot Cabernet Franc from Pauillac
93/100
4.5 Stars
Huon Hooke
A classic Pauillac, cedary and elegantly proportioned, tight and balanced and long. Savoury, cedary flavours, a very attractive wine indeed.
Tasted: 19/04/2015
Drink: 2020 to 2045
96 Points Robert Parker
The 2010 Lynch Bages is an absolutely brilliant wine, and somewhat reminiscent at this stage in its development of the profound 1989. Jean-Charles Cazes, who took over for his father a number of years ago, has produced a magnificent wine with the classic creme de cassis note intermixed with smoke, graphite and spring flowers. It is a massive Lynch Bages, full-bodied and very 1989-ish, with notable power, loads of tannin, and extraordinary concentration and precision. This is not a Lynch Bages to drink in its exuberant youth, but one to hold on to for 5-6 years and drink over the following three decades.
Source: Robert Parker (Robert Parker Wine Advocate) by Robert M. Parker, Jr. February, 2013