{"product_id":"chateau-grand-puy-lacoste-pauillac-eta-q3-2028-en-primeur-2025-750ml","title":"Chateau Grand Puy Lacoste Pauillac *ETA Q3, 2028 En Primeur* 2025 750ml","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 54, 136);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eChâteau Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2025 is a classic Pauillac that showcases the estate’s hallmark precision, balance, and ageing potential. Crafted from 76% Cabernet Sauvignon and 24% Merlot, it offers aromas of cassis, dark berries, cedar, graphite, and subtle floral notes. The palate is structured and refined, with finely grained tannins, fresh acidity, and a pure core of dark fruit. Elegant rather than powerful, the 2025 vintage delivers remarkable clarity, mineral freshness, and a long, persistent finish. A timeless expression of Pauillac with the depth and structure to reward long-term cellaring.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wine Advocate | \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(151, 7, 0);\"\u003eRP 95-97\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished: Apr 30, 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2025 Grand-Puy-Lacoste reveals a classic, refined bouquet of cassis, dark berries, cedar and lead pencil, with discreet floral nuances. Medium- to full-bodied, structured and precise, it’s built around a well-defined core of fruit framed by finely grained, youthful, filigreed tannins with a tensile profile. Less demonstrative than some of its peers in Pauillac, it privileges balance and typicity over sheer power, concluding with a long, elegant and mineral finish. Produced from a blend of 76% Cabernet Sauvignon and 24% Merlot, this is the first vintage vinified in the estate’s new gravity-fed cellar, enabling more precise parcel selection—an evolution that appears to reinforce the wine’s precision and coherence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sc-goWbiv loNZbm\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eChâteau Grand-Puy-Lacoste covers some 90 hectares on one of Pauillac’s most coherent gravel rises, where Cabernet Sauvignon dominates, supported by Merlot. The Borie family directs the estate with a steady hand, favoring continuity and incremental improvement over stylistic shifts.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eViticulture remains traditional, with straightforward vineyard work and picking decisions taken parcel by parcel. Recent investment centers on a new gravity-fed winery, which handles fruit more gently and sharpens precision. It enables more precise control of extractions and a more detailed, parcel-by-parcel vinification. In the cellar, fermentations proceed without artifice, followed by élevage in barrels, with a measured proportion of new oak and regular rackings.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe range centers on the grand vin. Lacoste-Borie is not a classic second wine but derives from parcels planted on different soils, cultivated and vinified separately, yielding a distinct expression rather than a conventional second wine.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn 2025, Grand-Puy-Lacoste delivers what it set out to deliver: a classic Pauillac, structured and direct. The style holds its line but gains in detail and control thanks to the new winery. Tannins show better integration, the fruit reads more clearly, and the wine keeps its linear, age-worthy frame.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames Suckling | \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(144, 2, 2); text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eJS 97\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished: Apr 21, 2026\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExcellent GPL, medium- to full-bodied with a great expression of dark fruit that is evenly distributed. It’s fresh and precise with grainy, integrated tannins that should only integrate more. A blend of 76% cabernet sauvignon and 24% merlot.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eJancis Robinson | \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(151, 7, 0); text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eJR 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished: Apr 14, 2026\u003cbr\u003eDrink: 2032-2050\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e76% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot. 30 hl\/ha. Cask sample\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTrue to style. Dark-fruit and graphite nose. Lively fruit and freshness. Structured but not abrasive. Good persistence on the finish. Classic. 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