Château Lascombes 2022 is a distinguished wine from the esteemed Margaux appellation, showcasing the estate's dedication to producing wines of exceptional quality. The vineyard, located on Bordeaux's Left Bank, benefits from diverse soil types that impart unique complexity to the wine. The 2022 vintage offers a powerful and elegant profile, with a deep and intense color, a nose of black cherries, blackcurrants, sweet spices, bitter chocolate, and fennel, and a palate that balances solid tannic structure with fresh acidity, leaving a lingering finish of black fruit and spice.

Composition: Predominantly Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. The vineyard spans 120 hectares with a variety of soil types.
Winemaking: Grapes are harvested by hand, sorted before and after destemming, and vinified with attention to detail to preserve quality.
Aging: The wine benefits from aging that softens tannins and enhances aromas over time.

Wine Critic Reviews

The Wine Palate (94): Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2022 Lascombes erupts from the glass with powerful notes of plum pudding, black currant pastilles, and mince pies, followed by hints of tobacco and bay leaves. The full-bodied palate is densely laden with rich stewed black fruits flavors, supported by plush tannins and seamless freshness, finishing on a lingering anise note.

The Tasting Panel - The Somm Journal (97): An Earth Mother, with velvet-lined blackberry, Bay leaf, graphite, and roasted coffee bean. Chalky tannins grip the teeth, with a dusty grip. From its backbone and vibrant acidity, to its notes of dried violets on the finish, we bow to its elegant nature.

Izak Litwar - Great Wines from Bordeaux (95): A powerful wine with aromatic and intense blackcurrant notes, sappy, corpulent, and creamy berries on the palate, full-bodied yet graceful, with splendid complexity, a delicate mid-palate, and a vibrant, long aftertaste. Great effort.

Wine Review Online (95): The explosive bouquet correctly predicts what follows and what follows does not disappoint. The Cabernet adds needed structure to the opulent 2022, an amazingly fresh and vibrant wine, especially for its richness and the warmth of the vintage. Fine tannins impart a polished texture and likely are a result of Heinz diverting much of the production into a second wine.

Adrian van Velsen - vvWine.ch (90): The wine has an open nose with a lot of dark fruit and smoky notes; on the palate, it is dense, noticeably tannic, with clear extraction, well-structured, and has a long finish. Qualitatively very good, but with somewhat less charm.

Falstaff (95): Dark ruby, purple reflections, delicate ochre rim. An inviting bouquet, with notes of caramel, hints of liquorice and black fruits of the forest, a subtle touch of nougat. Complex and tightly woven, with a chocolaty texture, fine acidity, supporting tannins and a lingering finish. Still needs time, definite further ageing potential.

Raffaele Vecchione - WinesCritic.com (97): Precise, brilliant and engaging, a three-dimensional wine that shows itself in all its splendor. Notes of black cherries, mixed plums, mixed flowers and bergamot describe the secondary scene. Lemon peel and ginger the secondary one. Full body, perfectly extracted tannins and a vertical finish of infinite presence.