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Red dry
Château Lynch-Bages 2000 is a truly iconic Bordeaux, representing a harmonious blend of power and elegance from the celebrated Pauillac appellation. This fifth-growth Grand Cru Classé is renowned for its consistent quality and exceptional aging potential, making the 2000 vintage a standout choice for collectors and connoisseurs.
The Château Lynch-Bages 2000 displays a deep ruby color with a brilliant shine, hinting at its maturity and concentration. The delightful, multifaceted aroma is complex and captivating.
On the palate, this is a medium to full-bodied, elegant wine, boasting superb balance and a wonderful structure. It features noticeable yet velvety, rounded tannins that have beautifully integrated over time, contributing to a remarkably long and expressive aftertaste. Reviewers often highlight its remarkable freshness and layered texture.
Château Lynch-Bages' vineyards, spanning around 90-100 hectares, are primarily planted on deep Garonne gravel soils characteristic of Pauillac. This unique terroir, dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon, is crucial to the wine's distinctive profile, providing excellent drainage and ideal conditions for the grapes to reach optimal ripeness.
The wine is then aged for 14-15 months (or sometimes up to 18 months, with 70-75% new French oak annually) in French oak barrels.
Serve at 16-18 °C with red meat stew with black plums, beef and veal steak, roast lamb, medium hard cheeses.
Although there are records of the Bages territory as far back as the 16th century, the history of wine production in the area really began in the 18th century. From 1749 to 1824, the vineyard was owned by Thomas Lynch, the son of an Irishman from Galway who worked as a merchant in Bordeaux. Thomas Lynch managed the land wisely and produced high quality wines under the name of ''Cru de Lynch''. As part of the prestigious 1855 Classification, for the Exposition Universelle de Paris, his wine would soon be classified as one of the fifth growths. Later on, Jean ''Lou Janou'' Cazes, a ''Montagnol'' (a term used to describe farmers from the austere upper valleys of Ariège), came to the Médoc to earn a living. In the 1930's, General Félix de Vial, a descendant of the Cayrou family, leased the vineyard to Jean-Charles Cazes, the son of ''Lou Janou'' and a farmer at Château Ormes de Pez in Saint-Estèphe. Cazes went on to purchase both properties in the wake of World War II. Lynch-Bages has been run by the Cazes family ever since.Lynch-Bages' old vat-house represents a rare example of traditional winemaking equipment the Médoc area. Its slatted flooring which introduced the advantages of gravitational design now used in modern vat-houses, was invented by Skawinski in 1850. Back then, grapes were transported in a cart pulled by horses and then being lifted by crane and emptied into a wooden tank on wheels and tracks. One or two winemakers inside the tank then crushed the grapes, making the juice flow out through openings into vats on either side. A rope-pulley-bucket system and no less than six workers were then required to remove the leftover grape skins from the fermentation vat.
