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Chateau Lynch Bages2009

RED WINE

PUBLIC
July 2025
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Chateau Lynch Bages label
  • Producer Chateau Lynch-Bages
  • Blend 4% Cabernet Franc
    76% Cabernet Sauvignon
    18% Merlot
    2% Petit Verdot
  • Country France
  • Region Bordeaux
  • Appellation Pauillac
  • UPC 0 15643 25370 6

Reviews

James Suckling 96

A powerful and ripe wine with a wide-screen personality, this makes a very bold statement without becoming a jot heavy. Serious tannins at the long finish suggest this has long-term aging potential. Drink now with a big steak or hold.

by JS, James Suckling , 2019

Wine Enthusiast 96

A dense, immense, solidly powerful wine. The ripest fruit overflows, paralleling the dark, solid tannins. As so often, Lynch-Bages is a blockbuster, dark concentrated, with immense aging potential.

by RV, Wine Enthusiast , 2012

Wine Spectator 96

Tight and backward, this has dense, almost chewy layers of fig, currant and plum cake behind a very solid wall of cedar, roasted vanilla and charcoal notes. There's serious grip on the finish, with an iron edge that won't quit. Best from 2015 through 2035. 31,500 cases made. –JM

by JM, Wine Spectator , 2012

Wine Advocate 96

The medium to deep garnet colored 2009 Lynch Bages is boldly scented of crème de cassis, blackberry pie and baked plums with chocolate box, incense and underbrush suggestions plus a waft of bay leaves. Medium to full-bodied, taut and well sustained in the mouth, it has a firm, grainy texture and a lively backbone lifting the black fruit core to a nice long finish.

by LP, Wine Advocate , 2019

Technical Details

Ageing

French oak barrels for 15 months (70% new wood)

Tasting notes

Very powerful and well-balanced. The colour is deep and the nose reflects the sunny growing season with remarkable ripeness and overtones of blackcurrant and black fruit. The wine starts out unctuous and straightforward on the palate with impressively concentrated, elegant tannin accompanied by plenty of body.

Vintage

Things are looking extremely auspicious for the 2009 vintage: good rainfall levels, plenty of sunshine, cool nights alternating with warm days, a superb September, and lovely fine weather during harvest. The maturity and sanitary state of the grapes were perfect, and the wines are rich and concentrated but well balanced. These all point to a vintage at least equal to or even better than that of 2005, perhaps even approaching the great vintages of the 40s...