Appellations

Lynch Moussas 2022

Pauillac, Fifth Growth

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Tasting Notes

The 2022 Lynch-Moussas has developed well on the nose since primeur, offering a mélange of red and black fruit, pencil shavings and light forest floor scents that are all well defined and focused. The oak here is neatly integrated. The palate is medium-bodied with sapid black fruit mixed with cedar and white pepper tones, building nicely toward a structured cracked pepper finish that lingers in the mouth. This is promising. It is a more refined Lynch-Moussas compared to prior vintages.

Score: 92 Neal Martin, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2028-2048 Date: 12 February 2025

Smoky dark fruits and leafy tobacco are just some of the notes in the 2022 Château Lynch-Moussas, a medium to full-bodied, nicely balanced, beautifully layered Pauillac. The tannins here are ripe and polished, and it has plenty of mid-palate depth as well as outstanding length. It's a seriously good wine, if not the finest I've tasted from this château. It's clearly in the same ballpark as the 2018, 2019, and 2020.

Score: 92 - 94 Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com Date: 05 October 2023

Inky, powerful colour, edges of heady incense on the nose but this feels more rooted in Paullac for me than many vintages of Lynch Moussas, delivering intense cassis and dark fruit character, edges of crushed rose petals, clove and tar. Plenty of fresh mint leaf coming through as well, with a real sense of poise. It feels like part of the Château Batailley family this year, more than usual, a buy. 57% new oak.

Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2047 Date: 11 May 2023

Exhibiting aromas of rich cassis, berries, licorice and loamy soil, the 2022 Lynch-Moussas is medium to full-bodied, firm and somewhat austere.

Score: 87 - 89 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Date: 28 April 2023

Extremely well done with a full body and nicely integrated tannins that give this tension and power. The structure is wonderful. Minty. Chocolate-covered coffee beans. Serious but fun.

Score: 94 - 95 James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Date: 13 April 2023