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Antonio Galloni

Vinous

The 2024 Lascombes represents another important step for Lascombes under its current leadership. Silky and elegant, with notable depth, the Grand Vin impresses with its textural resonance and persistence. New leather, licorice, lavender and incense weave through a core of dark-toned fruit. Lascombes is shaping up to be one of the sleepers of 2024. I can't wait to taste it from bottle. Impressive. Tasted three times. 04/2025

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Neal Martin

Vinous

The 2024 Lascombes was picked between September 23 and October 9 according to ripeness levels in parcels at 38 hl/ha. This vintage is aged in barrels with less heavy toasting (60% new), 80hl foudres and amphora. The wine is usually finished in the last two or three months in those foudres, though Axel Heinz said that might be omitted this year. It has an elegant and pure bouquet with bright black cherry and cassis fruit. There is remarkable underlying mineralité in this wine. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, quite crisp and linear like many other Margaux wines. Light on its feet and very fresh with impressive precision on the finish, the 2024 is a "nimble" Lascombes that you would never have seen in the 1990s or 2000s. This is a very commendable, classically-styled wine that will give pleasure after three or four years. 04/2025

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William Kelley

Robert Parker/Wine Advocate

Aromas of cassis, lilac and nicely integrated creamy new oak introduce the 2024 Lascombes, a medium to full-bodied, dense and youthfully structured young wine underpinned by a bright spine of acidity and concluding with gently chewy tannins. This was cropped at 38 hectoliters per hectare and saw a combination of tank bleeds and reverse osmosis to amp up its concentration. Maturation is in 60% new oak, with lighter toasts than was formerly the case at this address. 04/2025

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Jeb Dunnuck

Jeb Dunnuck

Based largely on Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, with smaller amounts of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot, and aging in 60% new oak, the 2024 Château De Lascombes is deeper hued than the Chevalier de Lascombes and offers more cassis, graphite, classy oak, and scorched earth. Medium-bodied, it has remarkable purity, ripe, building tannins, solid mid-palate depth, balance, and length. It's another brilliant effort by technical director Axel Heinz at this château that's up there with the crème de la crème of the vintage. 05/2025

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Jean-Marc Quarin

Jean-Marc Quarin

Couleur noire, aux reflets pourpres. Nez intense, fin, fruité, pur et subtil. Fond crémeux à l'évolution dans le verre. Délicat à l'attaque, subtil au développement, avec un beau toucher et beaucoup de goût, le vin évolue très uni vers une longue finale séveuse, sans angle tannique. Une réalisation plus margalienne que jamais qui tranche avec le passé. C'est très bon. Assemblage : 65 % cabernet sauvignon, 30 % merlot, 5 % cabernet franc et petit verdot. Degré d'alcool : 13°3 - pH : 3,75. Rendement : 38 hl/ha. Le volume de production a diminué de 40 % depuis le nouvel achat en novembre 2022. 04/2025

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Zekun Shuai

James Suckling

A touch of warm bread, graphite and fresh blackberries with a touch of black pepper. Richer and more concentrated than many from this vintage, this has excellent depth, full body and very complete, fine-grained tannins. Long, broad and juicy. 65% cabernet sauvignon, 30% merlot and 5% cabernet franc and petit verdot combined. Around 60% new oak with lighter toast now. 04/2025