CHÂTEAU LASCOMBES 2016

Château Lascombes 2016

“Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2016 Lascombes features beautiful, candied violets, Black Forest cake, cassis and menthol with hints of underbrush, cloves, pencil lead and tar. Medium-bodied with good intensity and firm, grainy tannins, it finishes long and perfumed. Drink 2019 – 2037.” – 94+/100, Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

VARIETIES: 50% Merlot, 47% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Petit Verdot
REGION: Margaux, Bordeaux, France
AGEING: 4 months ageing on the lees. The wine is vinified in a combination of wood and stainless-steel vats and then aged in 70% new barrels for 18 months
GUARDING POTENTIAL: Enjoy now or will cellar well up to 15 years
SERVE: Serve at 16 – 18ºC
FITS TO: Margaux rouge loves Confit Lamb Shank, Guinea Fowl Supreme with Buttered Chestnuts, Hong Kong style Roasted Goose or cheese like Mimolette / Gouda / Tommes
CRITICS SCORES: 92/WS, 94+/RP, 95/JS, 93/WE
VIVINO: Average 4.3 ★★★★✰

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2ᵉ Grand Cru Classé – 1855, Margaux Appellation | Range | Château Lascombes

Château Lascombes, a 2emé Cru Classé property is one of the largest estates in the Médoc and probably the most fragmented, with around 40 or so different parcels of vines spread throughout the Margaux appellation. It was owned between 1951 and 1971 by Alexis Lichine and was owned by Bass until the 2001. Bass Charrington sold Chateau Lascombes to the American company Colony Capital in 2001.

Colony Capital have invested heavily in the property and in particular have installed a state-of-the-art, stainless steel cuvier. The blend at Lascombes is made up of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot, and the wine is aged in oak barriques (60% new) for 18 months. Lascombes produces elegant, well-balanced clarets, rich in succulent creamy blackcurrant fruits, which gain further complexity and depth with ageing.

Château Lascombes in Margaux appellation is one of the most famous wine, the 2016 vintage is a great success.

The vintage is characterized by a wet and relatively cool beginning of the season, followed by a very dry summer, at a rarely reached level, and rather warm, with a dry and sunny autumn, with strong thermal amplitudes. As a result, the quality of the grape harvests was very dependent on the part of the work done on the vines in the spring, on the other hand the quality of rooting, which will have more or less responded to the water needs of the plant. The sunshine was generally faithful to the averages, but its particular distribution strongly contributed to the personality of the vintage. After a mild, dry autumn (November and December 2015 with aboveaverage temperatures and 50% rainfall deficit compared to averages, with a constant south current), the months of January and February, until March 10, were mild and wet (1 ° C more than the average and three times the 30-year average over January, with 240 mm!). April was relatively dry, but overcast and with frequent rains, then May and June were rainy, with much lower sunshine than in 2015 and relatively cool (June 1 ° C below average, with only one hot episode at the end of month (33-35 ° C)). The flower, between the end of May and the middle of June, forecast harvest around September 26th. The temperatures of the summer months were close to the averages, August slightly warmer than July, with two peaks of heat, August 15 and 23 to 27, with a high of 36.7 ° C on the 23rd. From the 28th, the nights were cool, around 15 °C. September remained summer until the storm of 13/09. Overall, it was mild, with rare rainy episodes, and dry with great temperature differences between day and night. This favored a slow maturation of the grapes which remained perfectly healthy. October was dry, so that the beginning of the harvest could be delayed until the end of September.