2023 Chevalier de Lascombes
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The 2023 Chevalier de Lascombes is a gorgeous second wine. Plump, juicy and inviting, the Merlot-based Chevalier will be ready to drink with minimal cellaring. Supple contours frame a core of plum, black cherry, new leather, mocha and licorice. This bold, luscious Margaux offers tons of immediacy.
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Neal Martin
James Suckling
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The 2023 Chevalier de Lascombes has a bright black cherry- and blueberry-scented bouquet, just a touch of violet in the background. Maybe it just misses a little bandwidth. The palate is medium-bodied with a little rigidity on the entry. Sapid, quite angular in style, it just needs to muster more flesh on the finish.
Lightly baked red cherries and sweet strawberries at first, but the slightly baked character gets blown off in the glass as you give it some time, revealing aromas of fresher red berries, hibiscus and minerals. Fruity on the palate but tense at the core, with fresh, fine-grained tannins and a juicy, tight-wound finish. Better from 2026.
The 2023 Chevalier de Lascombes is soft, open-knit and very easy to like. A new emphasis on freshness is evident in the wine's bright red-toned fruit, citrus and floral notes. Elegant, silky tannins add to the wine's palpable finesse. This is very nicely done. I especially admire the energy here.
About the producer
With vines spread across 40 different parcels throughout the appellation, Ch. Lascombes is one of the most fragmented but also largest Médoc estates, with 120 hectares of vines, now owned by the MACSF insurance company.