Colin Hay om:
Chateau La Lagune 3eme Cru
(Haut-Médoc; 41% Cabernet Sauvignon, 50% Merlot, 9% Petit Verdot; a final yield of 20 hl/ha; 14% ABV; certified organic and biodynamic; tasted twice, first at the UGCB press tasting at the Cité du Vin and then at La Lagune with Delphine Frey). The competition may have intensified amongst the grands crus classés of the Haut-Médoc appellation, but La Lagune is capable of raising its game too – as this shows so effortlessly. An utterly beautiful wine of shimmering purity and beguiling charm. It seems to capture the very essence of natural florality. This is also one of the most cedar-enrobed wines of the UGCB tasting, with a lovely dark plungepool core of dark berries and damsons, a touch of walnut and a little graphite. There's more intensity to that signature La Lagune florality than perhaps ever before in an en primeur sample – here dark, bulby blooms like peonies and irises – and, as the wine breathes we find more and more black cherry. Very true to its identity and very dynamic in the mid-palate this is a gorgeous, sumptuous wine and the star of the appellation once again, albeit in the face of that growing (and welcome) competition!
