| Tasting note |
A classic wine to drink now. Plenty of dark berry and spice character. Full-bodied, with fine tannins and a beautiful depth and intensity. Fresh earth and sweet tobacco aftertaste. By James Suckling, Jul 2014.
The 1995 vintage at Château Lagrange was in many ways a watershed year for the estate, as I would peg this vintage as the one where the new regime really settled in and cemented the excellent, classical style for which this house has now become so well-known. The wines here from the late 1980s are very good, but 1995 is where everything seems to have fallen into place. The ’95 Lagrange today is starting to really drink well, offering up a refined bouquet of cassis, gravelly dark soil tones, still a dollop of fresh herbs, cigar wrapper, a deft framing of new oak and a topnote that suggests black truffle tones are just around the corner. On the palate the wine is deep, pure and full-bodied, with a lovely core of black fruit, good soil signature and grip, moderate, fine-grained tannins and a long, complex and promising finish. This is quite approachable, but will be even better with a bit more time in the cellar. It is a very good 1995 claret. By John Gilman, Sep 2020.
The 1995 Lagrange is similar to the 1996, but the fruit is sweeter, the acidity lower, and the wine less marked by Cabernet Sauvignon. The color is a deep ruby/purple. The wine boasts a roasted herb, charcoal, black currant, mineral, and new oak-scented nose. Medium to full-bodied and ripe, with copious quantities of jammy black cherry and cassis flavors presented in a medium-bodied, low acid, moderately tannic style, this well-endowed, purely made wine requires cellaring. By Robert Parker, Feb 1998. |
