Product Description
The final blend includes more press wine which increases the freshness. The wine is medium to full-bodied with elevated tannins and creme de cassis fruit flavours.
Tasting Notes
Vinous 91
The 2006 Grand-Puy-Lacoste is an impressive wine for the vintage. Though this example was poured blind at the property, I have encountered better bottles, and this shows a little volatility on the nose. The palate has plenty of concentration, more like a 2005 in style with plush blackberry and blueberry fruit. Good grip and assertive on the finish, this is a delicious Pauillac, although I leave a question mark against my score simply because I know it can show better. Tasted at the chateau.
Robert Parker 94
Tasted at Bordeaux Index’s annual 10-Year On tasting in London. I raved about the 2006 Chateau Grand Puy-Lacoste when I tasted it from barrel ten years ago. It has evolved a really quite beautiful, very classic Pauillac bouquet with vivacious blackberry, raspberry and wild mint aromas that deftly absorb the oak. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin, perhaps a more forward "GPL" than other vintages, but there is genuine fineness to the tannin and that backward finish has great precision. There is the substance to suggest that it will be a long-term Left Bank and you could probably broach it after another 3-4 years. Tasted January 2016.
Anticipated maturity: 2019-2038
Producer Profile
Area under vines: 55 hectares
Soils: Very deep coarse gravel
Average age of the vines: 38 years
Planting density: 10 000 vines/ha
Production: 180,000 bottles a year
Ageing: in 75% new oak barrels for 16 to 18 months
Grape varieties:
- Cabernet Sauvignon 75%
- Merlot 20%
- Cabernet Franc 5%
Second wine: Lacoste Borie
- Cabernet Sauvignon 55%
- Merlot 40%
- Cabernet Franc 5%
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