Wine: 2022 Chateau Lascombes
Score/Rating: 96+
Suggested Drinking Window: 2031 - 2061
Review Date: 02/27/2025
Reviewed By: Jeb Dunnuck
Tasting Notes: Based on [...] Cabernet Sauvignon, [...] Merlot and the rest Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc, [...]. This inky hued beauty boasts a rich, concentrated, full-bodied, well-oaked style as well as pure cassis and darker berry fruits, some graphite, scorched earth, and licorice nuances, terrific overall balance, and a great finish. This more modern styled, pure, seamless beauty will benefit from 4-6 years of bottle age and keep for 30 years.

Wine: Chateau Lascombes 2022 Bordeaux-Style Red Blend (Margaux)
Score/Rating: 95 - Cellar Selection
Suggested Drinking Window: Drink from 2029
Review Date: 04/1/2025
Reviewed By: Roger Voss
Tasting Notes: This large estate is now settled well into its elegant [style]. This new release is lifted with a licorice aroma and dense texture. It is juicy, packed with chocolate flavors and ripe tannins. The wine has a fine future. Drink from 2029.

Wine: Chateau Lascombes, Margaux (Bordeaux, France) 2022
Score/Rating: 95
Review Date: 02/12/2025
Reviewed By: Michael Apstein
Tasting Notes: Alex Heinz, the man responsible for the recent ascent of Ornellaia and Masseto, became the winemaker at Chateau Lascombes in the summer of 2023. So, although he did not make this wine, he influenced the blend. Less of the estate’s production went into this, the grand vin, which contains a higher percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon at the expense of Merlot compared to past vintages. The explosive bouquet correctly predicts what follows and what follows does not disappoint. The Cabernet adds needed structure to the opulent 2022, an amazingly fresh and vibrant wine, especially for its richness and the warmth of the vintage. Fine tannins impart a polished texture and likely are a result of Heinz diverting much of the production into a second wine. I can’t wait to see what he does when he actually makes the wine!

Wine: Chateau Lascombes Margaux 2022
Score/Rating: 94
Suggested Drinking Window: Best after 2030
Review Date: 01/07/2025
Reviewed By: James Suckling
Tasting Notes: This is a full-bodied Bordeaux with lots of velvety tannins and intensity. It’s a bit old-school now with so much fruit and texture, but it’s impressive, to say the least. Plenty of blackcurrant and blueberry character. Shows the richness of the vintage. Best after 2030.

Wine: 2022 Chateau Lascombes (Margaux)
Score/Rating: 93
Suggested Drinking Window: 2028 - 2050
Review Date: 03/01/2025
Tasting Notes: Incense, espresso, flowers, chocolate, and cherries are evident in the perfume. The palate is round, lush, and polished. There is a sweetness to the fruits, which are ripe and fresh, but there is a lot of oak to work through, so wait a bit, or enjoy this in its youth for its display of blackberries, black cherries, espresso, chocolate and creamy textures. Drink from 2028-2050.

Wine: Chateau Lascombes, Margaux, 2eme Cru Classe, Bordeaux 2022
Score/Rating: 93
Suggested Drinking Window: 2028 - 2040
Review Date: 01/08/2025
Reviewed By: Georgina Hindle
Tasting Notes: Dried flowers, exotic spices and some herbal notes join black fruit on the nose. Compact and filling on the palate, tannins are massy and firm and although there is clear juiciness, the tannins are doing all the talking right now. Not as easy as some, there's tension and some restriction from cedar and liquorice spice but there's also purity of fruit and a long mentholated, salty stone finish. A touch rustic but that should soften and even out in a few years.

Wine: 2022 Lascombes
Score/Rating: 92
Suggested Drinking Window: 2027-2047
Review Date: 06/05/2025
Reviewed By: Chris Kissack
Tasting Notes: [...]. A dark, opaque hue in the glass, and a highly scented nose laden with oaky dark chocolate, with notes of rose petal, black cherry, currant and black pepper. It has a dark and brooding intensity, but there is an undeniable sense of breadth and maturity here, and this shows on the palate which is finely polished and laden with bitter dark chocolate, tar, currant and damson, all resting on a firm tannic backbone. A huge and self-confident style here, with delicious grip, which holds together well through to the finish of rich and peppered fruit. This is impressive although it perhaps lacks typicity, although whether the terroir would come to the fore after twenty years in bottle - a possibility - is something we will only answer by coming back to this in 2042. In the meantime, I look forward to seeing what future vintages, under Axel Heinz, who joined Lascombes, in 2023, are like.

Wine: 2022 Lascombes
Score/Rating: 91
Suggested Drinking Window: 2029 - 2049
Review Date: 01/2026
Reviewed By: Neal Martin
Tasting Notes: The 2022 Lascombes has quite an intense nose, with brambly black fruit, gravel and light pencil shavings scents unfolding in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with pliant tannins, good depth and volume, fine acidity and quite a minerally style, with admirable precision on the finish. This is very promising, though this is one example where the 2023 may well supersede the previous vintage. Tasted blind at the Southwold tasting in London.

Wine: Chateau Lascombes Margaux 2022
Score/Rating: 91
Suggested Drinking Window: Now through 2038
Review Date: 05/31/2025
Reviewed By: James Molesworth
Tasting Notes: Warm and caressing up front, with a velvety edge to its cassis and black cherry compote flavors, backed by singed black tea, wood spice and walnut husk notes that then leave a subtle, burly edge as they finish. A bit ambitious in style for this warm vintage. [...] Drink now through 2038. Tasted twice, with consistent notes.

Wine: 2022 Chateau Lascombes
Score/Rating: 96+
Suggested Drinking Window: 2031 - 2061
Review Date: 02/27/2025
Reviewed By: Jeb Dunnuck
Tasting Notes: Based on [...] Cabernet Sauvignon, [...] Merlot and the rest Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc, [...]. This inky hued beauty boasts a rich, concentrated, full-bodied, well-oaked style as well as pure cassis and darker berry fruits, some graphite, scorched earth, and licorice nuances, terrific overall balance, and a great finish. This more modern styled, pure, seamless beauty will benefit from 4-6 years of bottle age and keep for 30 years.

Wine: Chateau Lascombes 2022 Bordeaux-Style Red Blend (Margaux)
Score/Rating: 95 - Cellar Selection
Suggested Drinking Window: Drink from 2029
Review Date: 04/1/2025
Reviewed By: Roger Voss
Tasting Notes: This large estate is now settled well into its elegant [style]. This new release is lifted with a licorice aroma and dense texture. It is juicy, packed with chocolate flavors and ripe tannins. The wine has a fine future. Drink from 2029.

Wine: Chateau Lascombes, Margaux (Bordeaux, France) 2022
Score/Rating: 95
Review Date: 02/12/2025
Reviewed By: Michael Apstein
Tasting Notes: Alex Heinz, the man responsible for the recent ascent of Ornellaia and Masseto, became the winemaker at Chateau Lascombes in the summer of 2023. So, although he did not make this wine, he influenced the blend. Less of the estate’s production went into this, the grand vin, which contains a higher percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon at the expense of Merlot compared to past vintages. The explosive bouquet correctly predicts what follows and what follows does not disappoint. The Cabernet adds needed structure to the opulent 2022, an amazingly fresh and vibrant wine, especially for its richness and the warmth of the vintage. Fine tannins impart a polished texture and likely are a result of Heinz diverting much of the production into a second wine. I can’t wait to see what he does when he actually makes the wine!

Wine: Chateau Lascombes Margaux 2022
Score/Rating: 94
Suggested Drinking Window: Best after 2030
Review Date: 01/07/2025
Reviewed By: James Suckling
Tasting Notes: This is a full-bodied Bordeaux with lots of velvety tannins and intensity. It’s a bit old-school now with so much fruit and texture, but it’s impressive, to say the least. Plenty of blackcurrant and blueberry character. Shows the richness of the vintage. Best after 2030.

Wine: 2022 Chateau Lascombes (Margaux)
Score/Rating: 93
Suggested Drinking Window: 2028 - 2050
Review Date: 03/01/2025
Tasting Notes: Incense, espresso, flowers, chocolate, and cherries are evident in the perfume. The palate is round, lush, and polished. There is a sweetness to the fruits, which are ripe and fresh, but there is a lot of oak to work through, so wait a bit, or enjoy this in its youth for its display of blackberries, black cherries, espresso, chocolate and creamy textures. Drink from 2028-2050.

Wine: Chateau Lascombes, Margaux, 2eme Cru Classe, Bordeaux 2022
Score/Rating: 93
Suggested Drinking Window: 2028 - 2040
Review Date: 01/08/2025
Reviewed By: Georgina Hindle
Tasting Notes: Dried flowers, exotic spices and some herbal notes join black fruit on the nose. Compact and filling on the palate, tannins are massy and firm and although there is clear juiciness, the tannins are doing all the talking right now. Not as easy as some, there's tension and some restriction from cedar and liquorice spice but there's also purity of fruit and a long mentholated, salty stone finish. A touch rustic but that should soften and even out in a few years.

Wine: 2022 Lascombes
Score/Rating: 92
Suggested Drinking Window: 2027-2047
Review Date: 06/05/2025
Reviewed By: Chris Kissack
Tasting Notes: [...]. A dark, opaque hue in the glass, and a highly scented nose laden with oaky dark chocolate, with notes of rose petal, black cherry, currant and black pepper. It has a dark and brooding intensity, but there is an undeniable sense of breadth and maturity here, and this shows on the palate which is finely polished and laden with bitter dark chocolate, tar, currant and damson, all resting on a firm tannic backbone. A huge and self-confident style here, with delicious grip, which holds together well through to the finish of rich and peppered fruit. This is impressive although it perhaps lacks typicity, although whether the terroir would come to the fore after twenty years in bottle - a possibility - is something we will only answer by coming back to this in 2042. In the meantime, I look forward to seeing what future vintages, under Axel Heinz, who joined Lascombes, in 2023, are like.

Wine: 2022 Lascombes
Score/Rating: 91
Suggested Drinking Window: 2029 - 2049
Review Date: 01/2026
Reviewed By: Neal Martin
Tasting Notes: The 2022 Lascombes has quite an intense nose, with brambly black fruit, gravel and light pencil shavings scents unfolding in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with pliant tannins, good depth and volume, fine acidity and quite a minerally style, with admirable precision on the finish. This is very promising, though this is one example where the 2023 may well supersede the previous vintage. Tasted blind at the Southwold tasting in London.

Wine: Chateau Lascombes Margaux 2022
Score/Rating: 91
Suggested Drinking Window: Now through 2038
Review Date: 05/31/2025
Reviewed By: James Molesworth
Tasting Notes: Warm and caressing up front, with a velvety edge to its cassis and black cherry compote flavors, backed by singed black tea, wood spice and walnut husk notes that then leave a subtle, burly edge as they finish. A bit ambitious in style for this warm vintage. [...] Drink now through 2038. Tasted twice, with consistent notes.