95+ Points for This 2020 Bordeaux Classic!
Château Lagrange is on a historic roll, and it continues with their 2020 bottling. For the third vintage in a row, Wine Advocate honors it with their highest-ever 95-point score, and they have reviewed this wine since 1961!
“This is a quintessential Lagrange, very seductive, and I bet it will be underestimated by some people. Not me.”
- Vinous, Neal Martin (2/2023)
In another mark of the quality of the 2020 Lagrange, Jeb Dunnuck awards this wine 95+ points, and Vinous also adds its best-ever 95-point review to the mix. Talk about a unanimous decision for this knockout!
This iconic Cabernet-based Bordeaux is a phenomenal buy. Check out the trio of incredible reviews below, then quickly punch that Big Green Button to bring home this "underestimated" beauty!
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2020 Château Lagrange Saint-Julien
Bordeaux, France
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"Coming from depressingly low yields of just 26 hectoliters per hectare (the lowest since 1991), the 2020 Château Lagrange checks in as 74% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot, and 2% Petit Verdot that was raised in 60% new French oak. It's a gorgeous, complete Saint-Julien offering remarkable purity in its cassis, violets, chocolate, and leafy tobacco-like aromas and flavors. Medium to full-bodied on the palate, with terrific balance, a pure, focused mouthfeel, ripe tannins, and beautifully integrated oak, it's going to benefit from 4-6 years of bottle age and cruise over the following 2+ decades in cold cellars. Maturity: 2027 - 2047."
- 95+ Points, Jeb Dunnuck (3/29/2023)
"The 2020 Lagrange is a fine follow-up to the excellent 2019. Offering up aromas of crème de cassis and plums mingled with hints of violets, licorice, pencil shavings and vanilla pod, it's medium to full-bodied, fleshy and layered, with a deep core of ripe but vibrant fruit that's framed by powdery tannins that assert themselves with gentle grip on the finish. Drink Date: 2027 - 2055."
- 95 Points, Wine Advocate (4/6/2023)
"The 2020 Lagrange has wonderful control and mineralité on the nose, very precise and well defined, a touch of dried rose petal emerging with time. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy black fruit, white pepper and a saline undertow. Very complex and persistent on the finish, this is one of the more cerebral wines of the vintage. It's not to be underestimated (though too often, it is). Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting. Drinking Window: 2030 - 2060."
- 95 Points, Vinous - Neal Martin (1/2024)
Finding high-quality Bordeaux at this price is becoming a rare treat. We only have a few wooden 12-bottle cases available. Act fast and enjoy!
Vin Chicago Price: 54.99
