Winemaker Notes
Château Lagrézette is the estate's premier cru. Distinguished by numerous awards, it is a wine with excellent aging potential. It can continue to improve for over 15 years.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
A dark color and black tannins mark this estate wine from Lagrezette. It is dense, rich with its black-plum and jammy berry flavors. Wood aging shows in the spice while the alcohol does creep through in a pepper touch. But then, this wine is all about power and richness. Drink from 2023.
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Wine Spectator
A muscular but refined red, with inky layers of cherry ganache, mulberry and licorice notes, offset by savory herb, graphite and black olive accents. Full but supple tannins frame the mocha, balsamic and spice elements on the sinewy finish.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
While the second and third wines are well made and delicious drinking, it is at this level that the Lagrezette wines begin to get serious. The 2015 Chateau Lagrezette is a full-bodied 100% Malbec aged in 40% new French oak, boasting a voluminous nose of cedar, black cherries, blueberries and licorice. Mouthfilling and complex, it floods the palate with flavor, coating it in gentle tannins and finishing plush and remarkably elegant for a wine that exceeds 15% alcohol.
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James Suckling
Big, rich and ripe plums and full body here. The palate has depth and bold, fleshy ripe-plum flavors. Drink or hold.
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