Chateau Lynch-Bages, Pauillac, 2001
Lynch-Bages is the 5th Growth that has performed at 2nd Growth level for as long as anyone can remember — the Cazes-family Pauillac that built its reputation on richness, depth, and uncommon consistency across vintages both great and modest. The family has owned it since 1939 (Jean-Charles Cazes, great-grandson of the founder, runs it today), and that continuity shows in the cellar. 2001 was a classical structured Pauillac vintage — overshadowed at release by 2000, but a fundamentally well-built year that has aged on its own steady timeline. Twenty-four years on, the 2001 is fully mature and drinking at full song: cassis, cedar, graphite, that signature Pauillac smoky tobacco, dried herbs, leather. Tannins resolved, acidity bright, the wine's famed concentration now married to maturity. Drink over the next five-plus years.
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Lynch-Bages is the 5th Growth that has performed at 2nd Growth level for as long as anyone can remember — the Cazes-family Pauillac that built its reputation on richness, depth, and uncommon consistency across vintages both great and modest. The family has owned it since 1939 (Jean-Charles Cazes, great-grandson of the founder, runs it today), and that continuity shows in the cellar. 2001 was a classical structured Pauillac vintage — overshadowed at release by 2000, but a fundamentally well-built year that has aged on its own steady timeline. Twenty-four years on, the 2001 is fully mature and drinking at full song: cassis, cedar, graphite, that signature Pauillac smoky tobacco, dried herbs, leather. Tannins resolved, acidity bright, the wine's famed concentration now married to maturity. Drink over the next five-plus years.
