Château Lascombes: Tasting & Drinking
My earliest encounters with the wines of Château Lascombes tended to feature, perhaps unsurprisingly given my age, vintages from the 1970s and 1980s. At that time the property was in the ownership of Bass Charrington, and there can be few who have tasted the wines of this era who would deny that they were remarkably lacklustre efforts. In fact, Château Lascombes may well have been the most underperforming property of the Médoc. There are underperforming châteaux throughout Bordeaux, of course, but perhaps none (well, just one or two) with the prestigious ranking of Château Lascombes, originally classified as a deuxième grand cru classé and yet at the time it was behaving like nothing of the sort. This was an estate ripe for change, and in 2001 it came in the shape of Colony Capital.
Please log in to continue reading: