Ratings By Robert Parker 93 Tasting Notes An impressive performance by Lagrange, the 2000 possesses a saturated ruby/purple color with obvious notes of melted licorice, creme de cassis, and toasty new oak. This ripe, dense, full-bodied St.-Julien is chewy, thick, high in tannin, large-bodied, and impressively long and dense. As always, it is less expressive… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 86 Tasting Notes This 1999??s aggressive new oak seems excessive for the amount of depth and fruit it possesses. There is excellent purity as well as texture, but the oak dominates at present, causing the tannin to taste dry and astringent. Nevertheless, it has the potential to become an elegant, mid-sized… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes This dark ruby-colored, elegant, attractive effort offers spicy new oak, medium body, excellent concentration as well as depth, surprising softness, and early appeal. As with many Medocs, Lagrange??s tannins have become much friendlier after bottling. Anticipated maturity: Now-2015. Last tasted, 3/02.(Bordeaux Book, 4th Edition Jan 2003) By Robert… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes This impeccably run, Japanese-owned property has fashioned a superb 1996. Opaque purple-colored, with a backward yet promising nose of classically pure cassis intermixed with pain grille and spice, this medium to full-bodied, powerful yet stylish wine possesses superb purity, a nicely-layered feel in the mouth, and plenty of… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes 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… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 92 Tasting Notes A wonderful success of the vintage, the 2008 d’Issan exhibits a dark plum/garnet/purple color as well as abundant aromas of flowers, Asian spices, jammy plums and black currants. Broad, savory and medium to full-bodied with sweet tannin and an evolved, already delicious, complex style, this cuvee will age… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes A light to medium-bodied, pretty, but slightly austere wine, this dark ruby-hued 2007 reveals spicy berry fruit and tobacco leaf notes, and a soft, round style. Consume it over the next 7-10 years. Yields were a tiny 23.5 hectoliters per hectare.(Wine Advocate #188 Apr 2010) By Robert Parker
Ratings By Robert Parker 94 Tasting Notes Now consistently one of the great wines of the appellation, d??Issan has produced a dense purple-colored wine with a beautiful set of aromatics offering a smorgasbord of aromas such as perfumed flowers, incense, graphite, licorice, blueberry, and black currant. The wine is seamlessly constructed, like a fine dress… Read More »
Ratings By Robert Parker 95 Tasting Notes Along with the 2000, the 2005 is one of the two greatest d??Issans I have ever tasted. Kudos to proprietor Emmanuel Cruse for creating this beauty. Its dense purple hue is accompanied by aromas of camphor, forest floor, blackberries, cassis, and a hint of spring flowers. Full-bodied with… Read More »