This is extremely linear and refined with a super-fine line of tannins running through the center of the wine. It’s full-bodied, yet tight and sophisticated, with a long, long finish. Plenty of blackcurrant, dark chocolate, walnut and cedar in the aftertaste. Try after 2025.

Very deep garnet-purple colored, the 2019 Lascombes charges out of the gate with brazen scents of blackcurrant jelly, Black Forest cake and black raspberries plus touches of cedar chest, lilacs, pencil lead, camphor and crushed rocks. Medium to full-bodied, the palate possesses beautiful poise and freshness, with a firm line of ripe, finely grained tannins supporting the intense, crunchy black fruits, finishing on a lingering mineral note. Lisa Perrotti-Brown, June 2020

The 2019 Lascombes is a rich, heady wine, as it so often is. A rush of inky dark fruit, crème de cassis, menthol, licorice and lavender builds as this voluptuous, creamy Margaux shows off its winning personality. Supple and forward, Lascombes is decidedly extroverted in feel, and yet all the elements meld together effortlessly. Lascombes is a big, extravagant wine, but the 2019 appears to be a bit more restrained than in the recent past. June 2020

The 2019 Lascombes was cropped at 48hl/ha between 19 September and finishing 16 October with the Cabernet Sauvignon. It sees 60% new oak. It offers plenty of dusky blackberry and bilberry on the nose, the aromatics a little stricter than recent vintages with an underlying pencil lead scent that imparts an almost Pauillac-like personality. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins. There is quite a bit of new oak here that will need to be assimilated and it slightly pokes out towards the creamy finish, but it is balanced and focused with a persistent aftertaste. Tasted three times. June 2020