Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Still a saturated ruby-black in hue, the 2010 Lynch-Bages offers up aromas of rich cassis fruit mingled with hints of pencil shavings, loamy soil and cigar wrapper. Full-bodied, deep and muscular, it's rich and layered, with a concentrated core of fruit that's framed by firm, powdery tannins and lively acids. The most brooding, backward Lynch-Bages of the decade and one of the real successes of the vintage, this is a vibrant, tightly wound wine that is still an infant at age 10. Readers with bottles in their cellars might try one now out of curiosity, but this 2010 won't begin to hit its stride until age 20.

James Suckling

A wine with great beauty and finesse. Such elegance and ethereal quality for this estate. Full body, with ultra-fine tannins and a juicy delicious finish. Long and beautiful. This is the best Lynch in a long, long time. I love the precision here.

VertdeVin

The nose is beautifully built, elegant, racy and offers a beautiful power (full of delicacy), a multi-layer side, deepness, density, a beautiful finesse of the grain as well as complexity. This wine should be decanted and needs patience during tasting. It reveals notes of quite ripe wild strawberry, bright wild blackberry and small notes of quite ripe raspberry associated with small touches of Sichuan pepper, small blue fruits, lily, cornflower as well as hints of incense, sweet spices, toasted, nutmeg, a very discreet hint of clove, underwood, an imperceptible saline hint and mild tobacco. The palate is elegant, delicate, juicy, fresh, beautifully powerful (full of controlled), very finely tight, racy and offers density, deepness, a multi-layer side, structure and a beautiful finesse of the fat. On the palate this wine expresses notes of bright wild blackberry, ripe wild raspberry and small notes of small wild fruits associated with a touch of fresh plum, violet, lily as well as hints of mild tobacco, clove and an imperceptible hint of underwood. Tannins are racy. Good length and persistence. A very discreet firmness on the persistence. A beautiful wine!

Gilbert & Gaillard

Wine Enthusiast

This sumptuous wine is driven by perfectly ripe fruit as well as dense, dusty and dry tannins. Great swathes of blackberry sweep across the palate, followed by juicy acidity. Such a combination will make this impressive wine a delight to drink in 10 years and beyond.

Adrian van Velsen - vvWine.ch