2014 Château Lanessan- France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Haut-Médoc (6/8/2017)
$8 for a half bottle, and more wine in that half than in full bottles of 5x the price. Elegant and flavorful Bordeaux that also has an element of austerity. Showing more open than my first bottle a few months ago. Cheap thrills!
Picked up a bottle of this last week for $19. Opened up Saturday night, drank half, rest of it to the fridge just putting the cork back in. Agree with above comments, a nice drink. Tonight, two days later, ticked up a notch. Was surprised to see the composite cork, but then my last quantity purchase of this was the '00.
I just went to a local retailer to pick up a bottle of the 2014 and was surprised to see that they only had the 2015 in stock (13.5% FWIW). I picked up a bottle and will try to open it this weekend. I’ll have to look elsewhere for the 14.
I opened this last night. Revisited tonight. I have to say this was not a good bottle. It felt like a generic New World cab or Cab Merlot blend. I appreciate that the wine is very young, but I was troubled by the complete lack of structure. I expected tannin, acid, and perhaps a little bit of wood. What I found was a lot of nothing. That said, the wine is very, very young. I will revisit tomorrow night, as the bottle is still mostly full. I appreciate that the wine is very young, but I was troubled by the complete lack of structure. I expected tannin, acid, and perhaps a little bit of wood. What I found was a lot of nothing. That said, the wine is very, very young. I will revisit tomorrow night, as the bottle is still mostly full. I like Lanessan, but in recent vintages I may actually prefer Senejac and for a couple dollars less. It does sound however, as if the wine is showing better out of half, and it may well improve.
very strange, when I opened a 14 a few weeks ago it was nothing BUT structure, tight as can be with acid and tannin up the wazooo. After a double decant and a whole day it opened into a very nice fleshy Medoc, though not much oak, which was to my taste.