Château de Lamarque: Tasting & Drinking
For those who enjoy drinking classically styled left-bank Bordeaux Château de Lamarque has long been a property worth following, but I would say in recent years quality here has been on the up. Many of my early encounters were quite ordinary experiences, but more recently I have found more to interest me. Particularly successful wines made here include the 2018, which impressed both from barrel and from bottle, and 2016, which put on a great performance at the barrel tastings early in 2017, and showed well when tasted a couple of years later, even if I was not quite as convinced as I had been on my first encounter.
Other good efforts here include 2015, not a vintage where success was universal on the left bank, but the more southerly parts of the peninsula, Margaux in particular, did well. Of course we are not that far north of Margaux here, and the end result at Château de Lamarque is a wine of charming sweet fruit and texture.
While other vintages might not be at the same level, there is still good potential in the wines of Pierre-Gilles Gromand d’Evry, and it will be interesting to see how the likes of 2020 and 2019, two other years of note, develop with time in bottle. (17/8/22)
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