Chateau Lassegue Grand Cru Classe 2025

Colin Hay om: Chateau Lassegue Grand Cru Classe

(Saint-Émilion; 48% Merlot, 46% Cabernet Franc, 6% Cabernet Sauvignon; even on the old vines the yields were between 32 and 35 hl/ha; pH 3.55; 14.3% ABV; no press wine; tasted at Lassègue with Pierre Seilhan). The old vine fruit here is crucial to the identity of this, and it's brilliant. Pierre Seilhan's experience in California was also crucial in what was quite a Californian vintage. Blue-purple in the glass, almost dark at the core and extremely limpid in the late morning sunshine. There's a lovely, deep purple florality to this and it gently enrobes the popping blueberries and black cherries. Generous, ample in frame and rich, deep, dark at the core and profound. This pushes well into the cheeks, with a lovely sense of grip from the limestone tannins. There's lots of wine here and a generous spiciness distributed across the length of the layered palate. Overall, this is rather opulent, but the oak of the past just a memory. A large and very substantial wine that reveals the terroir so well. Brilliant in form and shape, and incredibly succulent and juicy precisely because of the density and compactness of the mid-palate and the ample frame. Joyous – and the best wine produced at Lassègue that I have tasted!