2020, Echo de Lynch Bages, PAUILLACBordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot. The 2020 Echo de Lynch Bages has a bold and concentrated bouquet with a mixture of red and black fruit. There's plenty of ripeness here, yet maybe at the expense of clarity. The palate is medium bodied with a sapid entry and fine acidity, but it feels a bit shallow toward the attenuated finish. That might fill out with a couple of years in bottle. Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting. 89 Neal Martin,

penetrating finish

It's also a wine that needs time

The palate is medium-bodied with slightly chalky tannins on the entry

if not huge intensity

juicy plums

The 2021 La Vieille Cure has an open

plum and blackberry flavours lined with singed alder

This well-made effort should develop very nicely with further maturation barrel

grilled herb

Enjoy over the next decade

cooling mint

Has persistence and length