2018 GRAND PUY LACOSTE / 拉古斯
The fruit profile is typically darker than the Lacoste but it is still vibrant, fresh and wonderfully concentrated. The palate is beautifully linear and balanced with excellent focus, mineral grain and a bit of muscle. 78% Cabernet Sauvignon and the rest Merlot. The highest alcohol levels ever at 14% but you’d never know it and it’s still not a patch on some of the big bruisers this year. As it sits in the glass it becomes even more forward and clear with lively red currant on top of the deeper black berry.
Color
Red
Region
Bordeaux
Sub-Region
Pauillac
Vintage
2018
| Size | Price/BTL | Total Price | Availability | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1x75cl | $580.00 HKD | $580.00 HKD | 11 Immediate | |
| 6x75cl | $570.00 HKD | $3,420.00 HKD | 4 Immediate |
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The 2018 Grand Puy Lacoste has been brilliant since first tasted in barrel, and it continues to deliver in bottle at six years old. A deep, shiny ruby in the glass, the nose is succulent with blackcurrant and black cherry fruit, lined with a hint of cedar, spice box and wood smoke. Silky in texture on the palate, the fruit is ripe but well measured, GPL's textbook effortless elegance coming through. Unforced but deep and layered, the tannins have a real sheen and make this approachable now, melting into the black fruit and spice at the core. Cedary despite its ripe fruited finish, this is a wine with clear pedigree that tames the warmer elements of the vintage to allow the house style to shine. Drink it now or over the coming 25 years.
Cherries and walnuts with dried flowers on the nose. It’s medium-to full-bodied with very fine tannins, creamy texture and a bright, vivid finish. Plenty of currant and tar. Such polish and beauty. Drink after 2023.
The 2018 Grand-Puy-Lacoste displays a deep garnet-purple color and slowly emerging notes of ripe blackberries, blackcurrant pastilles and redcurrant jelly plus hints of cedar, underbrush, cinnamon stick and potpourri. The medium-bodied palate has well-managed, slightly chewy tannins and a refreshing line lifting the black and red berry layers, finishing earthy. 2024 - 2040
Another success from Grand-Puy-Lacoste – it’s bright and full of juice, prioritising vibrancy over power. As such, it has a touch less Pauillac typicity than in the absolutely brilliant 2016 vintage at this estate, although as it unfurls through the palate you do get the menthol, cassis and smoked cedar that is just such a beautiful sign of ripe Cabernet up in this corner of the world. They were extremely careful with extraction because of the high alcohols, so grapes underwent the shortest maceration to date with no pumping over just an infusion during the extraction process. Harvest took place between 21 September and 5 October. 12% press wine. 75% new oak used. A yield of 40hl/ha. Drinking Window 2026 - 2040
The 2018 Grand Puy Lacoste has a quintessential Pauillac nose of intense black fruit infused with graphite scents, pencil shavings and a very discreet marine influence. It is beautifully defined, less opulent than the 2018 Lynch Bages tasted alongside, yet maybe more complex. The palate is medium-bodied and taut, offering sappy black fruit, gritty tannins and a lot of crushed stone. The focused, graphite-driven finish could only come from this appellation. Superb. A wine to correct those bemoaning that Bordeaux no longer makes "proper Claret." 2023 - 2050