FEATURES
🏰 【The younger sibling in the Lascombes family, this Second Wine of Château Lascombes offers undeniable charm and real drinking pleasure, with an explosive nose of red berry fruit】. The 2012 vintage in Margaux required vintners to navigate capricious weather, resulting in wines with a duality of ripe berry notes and earthy undertones. This wine is carefully selected from batches not earmarked for the Grand Vin, ensuring its distinct character.
It displays an opaque violet color. The nose is expressive with boysenberry, blackberry, and plum aromas, followed by cedary cigar box characters. Abundant dark fruit flavors emerge in the mid-palate, nuanced with cocoa and vanilla notes. Fine-grained tannins are balanced by grippy acidity, leading to a long and complex finish with hints of spice and anise. It offers a fresh entry on the palate with fruit flavor coming through, presenting a very round and charming profile with supple tannins.
🍴 This versatile red Bordeaux pairs well with roasted red meats, grilled lamb, or mature hard cheeses.
🥂 A delightful choice for a dinner party, a casual gathering, or an enjoyable weeknight meal.
BACKGROUND
Chateau Lascombes is a wine estate in the Margaux appellation, producing a classic Bordeaux Blend wine known for its deep colour, rich texture, ripe fruit and elegant tannic structure. It was ranked a second growth in the 1855 Bordeaux Classification.The vineyard is situated in the northwest of the appellation, neighboring Chateaux Labegorce, Perriere and La Gurgue. It covers 112 hectares (275 acres) in Margaux with a parcel of 6ha (15 acres) in the Haut-Medoc appellation. The vineyard has three distinct parts of roughly equal size; a gravelly mound on which Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot are planted, a clay-gravel area of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, and clay-limestone plots better suited to Merlot. Unusually for Margaux, Merlot accounts for around 50 percent of plantings with Cabernet Sauvignon playing second fiddle along with a small amount of Petit Verdot. Despite this, the grand vin tends to feature around 55 percent Cabernet Sauvignon.
