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JAMES SUCKLING: "Medium-bodied with a firm tannin frame and pretty notes of pencil lead, blackberries and some walnuts. Hints of chocolate orange, too. Structured and a little chewy, with perfumed character. Juicy. 49% merlot, 40% cabernet sauvignon, 6% cabernet franc and 5% petit verdot."
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WEINWISSER: "Delikates Bouquet, rote Johannisbeere, getrockneter Rosmarin, helles Graphit und Heidelbeergelee. Am balancierten Gaumen mit seidiger Textur, körnigem Extrakt, sanft zugreifendem Tanningerüst, balancierter Rasse und mittlerem Körper. Im gebündelten Finale rote- und blaue Beeren, weißer Pfeffer und fein sandige Adstringenz, frischer Sauerkirschensaft im Rückaroma. Fast auf dem gleichen Niveau wie in den letzten Jahren!"
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JEB DUNNUCK: "Managed by the team at Lynch-Bages, the 2021 Château Ormes De Pez comes from a 40-hectare vineyard in Saint-Estèphe. Medium to full-bodied, it has ripe tannins, good depth of fruit, and classic notes of darker fruits, loamy earth, tobacco leaf, and chalky minerality."
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DECANTER: "Sweet strawberry, orange, grapefruit, plums and blackcurrants, but the sweet jammy kind. This is fruit forward and expressive out the gate, round and so appealing. Spiced aspects from the Petit Verdot with a sturdy backbone in terms of structure and frame. Tannins are more on the austere side, fine and detailed, extremely mouthfilling but you can almost taste each one with the minerality coming through strongly leaving that clean wet stone taste in the mouth. Ripe and juicy dark fruit also. This is medium bodied with lots of precision in terms of detail. Lovely potential here. 5% Petit Verdot completes the blend. 3.68pH."
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THE WINE CELLAR INSIDER: "Medium-bodied, the wine is fresh, juicy, sweet, and vibrant with a complex finish loaded with round-textured, herbs, black raspberries, menthol, and plums that last through to the endnote. Drink from 2024-2043."
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THE WINE ADVOCATE: "The 2021 Ormes de Pez exhibits aromas of cassis, licorice, warm spices and toasty new oak, followed by a medium-bodied, lively and nicely concentrated palate built around rich, powdery tannins that will round out with further maturation in barrel. Produced by the Cazes family of Château Lynch-Bages, it shows promise."
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FALSTAFF: "Tiefdunkles Rubingranat, opaker Kern, violette Reflexe, zarte Randaufhellung. Nuancen von Cassis, Brombeerkonfitüre, ein Hauch von kandierten Orangenzesten. Mittlere Komplexität, rote Kirschen, gut integrierte Tannine, mineralisch und frisch, ein angenehmer Speisenbegleiter."