1975 Château Lascombes
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The 1975 Lascombes, poured from double-magnum, is quite deep in colour. Light bricking on the rim. The palate offers light, airy scents of cigar humidor and vestiges of black fruit; it’s quite fragrant and opens nicely with aeration, even if it never achieves complexity. The palate is medium-bodied and nicely proportioned, a Margaux that has held up well, although, like many Left Bank wines, it attenuates towards the finish. Solid.
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This wine possesses one of the most exaggerated aromatic profiles of the vintage. The 1975 Lascombes reveals a herbaceous, gingery, minty, spiced tea-like nose that readers will either detest or find interesting. Tannic and loosely jointed, this fully mature wine (there is considerable amber/orange at the edge) exhibits the vintage's tell-tale tannin and structure, but the fruit is sweet and ripe. Consume it over the next 5-7 years before the fruit begins to dry out. This is another wine that held up surprisingly well in an open decanter (2 days).
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.