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Tasting Notes
Vinous 92
La Lagune is the first famous name that Bordeaux-lovers encounter as they travel north through the Medoc. I recently visited the estate and took the opportunity to conduct a tasting of this Third Growth back to the 1960s with proprietor Caroline Frey. I wanted to discover more about the vineyard, its history and its wines. I wanted to find out about the future that turned out to be running and playing amongst the vines. The 1990 La Lagune has a lovely bouquet with scents of melted red fruit, pressed roses and wild hedgerow. There is something almost Burgundy-like about the aromatics and unlike the 1982 and 1986 they blossom with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin, good acidity, a pleasant fleshiness that segues into a ferrous and well-defined finish. A touch of spiciness develops yet it is the texture that really defines this La Lagune, its roundness and velvety sensation, the vintage indelibly marked upon this wine. One of the most enjoyable older vintages, it should continue to serve drinkers well over a number of years. Tasted at the La Lagune vertical at the chateau.
Anticipated maturity: 2018-2030
Wine Advocate 93
The 1990 La Lagune is a brilliant effort that outperforms in this vintage. Offering up a rich bouquet of blackberries, vine smoke, loamy soil and black truffle, mingled with subtle hints of cigar box, it’s medium-bodied, ample and enveloping, with melting tannins, ripe acids and a long, expansive finish. This is an especially velvety, sensuous wine that’s at its peak today but in no danger of imminent decline. In fact, I can’t think of a better mature La Lagune in my tasting experience (which stretches back to the 1955).
Anticipated maturity: 2010-2030
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