2018, Echo de Lynch Bages, PAUILLACBordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc. Composed of 62% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% Merlot and 2% Cabernet Franc and without any new oak, the very deep purple black coloured 2018 Echo de Lynch Bages rolls seductively out of the glass with fragrant notes of candied violets, rose hip tea and fragrant soil over a core of crushed blackberries, warm blackcurrants and kirsch plus wafts of chocolate mint and crushed rocks. Full, rich,

superb acidity and impressive harmony

a juice and a tension

the 2022 offers up an exotic mélange of sumptuous red/purplish fruit

is deep garnet-purple in colour

Owner Caroline Frey

vivid and intense

slowly and carefully builds in drama through the palate

giving a push-and-pull between flowers and fruit on the attack

This estate is achieving things no one would have thought possible a decade ago

Drinking Window: 2027 - 2039

made with grapes planted just outside of Bourg

It has weight and layers while having fruit intensity and a core of aromatics