Chateau Lynch Bages 2025

James Suckling: Lots of great energy, with a precision and focus that sends you down the road to gorgeous dark fruits and mineral nuances. A cool, minty note. Medium- to full-bodied. Racy and intense, with a lightness at the end. Juicy fruit, too. A blend of 66% cabernet sauvignon, 28% merlot, 3% cabernet franc and 3% petit verdot."

Vinum: Ein Duft mit Tiefgang, kühler Rauch, kieselhafte Mineralik, Tabak, Schwarzkirsche; am Gaumen dicht, fast schon zwei Mund voll Wein, die Tannine sind massiv, verleihen Halt, das Holz ist sehr gut verpackt, harmoniert mit der Frucht, der Wein zeigt gewohnt eine hohe Extraktion, jedoch nicht in einem überbordenden Masse, wie in den Jahren zuvor; im Abgang saftig, feinwürzig und von ausgezeichneter Länge. Ein monumentaler Lynch-Bages."

Jeb Dunnuck: Currants, smoky oak, chocolate, and hints of violets all define the 2025 Château Lynch-Bages, a remarkably balanced, elegant Pauillac from this estate that has more than a passing resemblance to the 2019. Medium to full-bodied on the palate, it has ultra-fine tannins and nicely integrated acidity, and it builds beautifully with time in the glass. It should have some reasonable accessibility, but as with most vintages here, the cellar will be your friend."

Falstaff: Tiefdunkles Rubingranat, opaker Kern, violette Reflexe, zarte Randaufhellung. Einladendes Cassis, schwarze Waldbeeren, Herzkirschen, ein Hauch von Edelholz, mineralischer Anklang. Kräftig, feine Süße in der Textur, runde Tannine, frisch strukturiert, elegant und gut entwickelt, ein balancierter Speisenwein mit sehr guter Länge, sicheres Reifepotenzial."

The Wine Cellar Insider: The perfume kicks off with creme de cassis, blackberries, flowers, peppery herbs, cigar wrappers, and tobacco, and mint leaves. The palate delivers its message with creamy-textures, and racy tannins. The wealth of fruit you taste, and feel wraps everything up perfectly with its ocean of of chewy currants, sweetness, lift, length, and complexity filling your palate with its weight and density. It is also seemingly weightless, and deceptively easy to drink. The character of the vintage was shaped in large part by its low yields which produced tiny berries with thick skins giving a small, juice to skins ratio. The wine blends 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 28% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc, and 3% Petit Verdot. 13.3% ABV. 3.70 pH. The harvest took place September 9 - September 21. Yields averaged 30 hectoliters per hectare. The Grand Vin was made from 65% of the harvest. Drink from 2032 -2065."

Jane Anson: Damson, cassis, bilberry, a wine that doesn't feel so far away from the very top vintages of the estate, clear expansion in the mid palate, with an uncompromising architecture that has the supple tannins of a warm year, with pomegranate, incense, blackberry, cedar, slate, crushed rocks. Excellently put together with juice, promise and personality. 3.68 pH. 75% new oak. Harvest September 9 to 21. Jean-Charles Cazes owner, along with his three sisters, Nicolas Labenne technical director."

Decanter: Dried floral scents, some cocoa powder, mint, red berries and sweet rose petals. Clean and crystalline, a lovely purity and soft chalky touch to the tannins which fill the mouth but don’t overwhelm. Feels quite a restrained style for Lynch, delicate almost, a gentle lick of liquorice, slate and wet stone with blackcurrant fruit. Quite a long style, very charming, juicy but really overall quite finessed/hands off. Ageing will add on a bit of added texture. Grippy, fleshy, chalky but cool. 3% Petit Verdot completes the blend. 3.68pH."

Wine Advocate: The 2025 Lynch-Bages wafts from the glass with aromas of dark wild berries, lead pencil and spices, framed by well-integrated new oak. Full-bodied, dense and concentrated, it’s deep and muscular, with a broad-shouldered profile, yet more velvety and precise than usual, showing a touch of freshness through the mid-palate, concluding with a long, cassis-inflected finish. Without departing from its customary style-combining power and generosity in youth-it is more approachable en primeur, with softer, more polished tannins than in recent vintages. This is a blend of 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 28% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot, matured with 75% new oak."

Lisa Perrotti-Brown: Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2025 Lynch-Bages needs a little swirling before it jumps from the glass with energetic notes of crushed blackberries, black cherries, and cassis, leading to hints of sassafras, tar, and iris with a touch of chargrill. Medium-bodied, the palate delivers savory black berry layers with firm, grainy tannins and bags of freshness, finishing long and earthy. The blend is 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 28% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc, and 3% Petit Verdot. It has a pH of 3.68 and the alcohol is 13.3%. It is aging for 18 months in French oak, 75% new."