Château Lynch-Moussas 2010 – Pauillac Grand Cru Classé

The nose is fresh, elegant and offers an aromatic power as well as complexity. This wine should be decanted. It reveals notes of quite ripe raspberry, dry cherryand small notes of quite ripe cassis associated with touches of violet, wild strawberry as well as hints of underwood, camphor, toasted almond, a hint of truffle, black pepper and bergamot. The palate is fruity and offers freshness, minerality, gourmandize, elegance, volume as well as gourmandize, ampleness, a certain richness, fullness, a mineral frame, a beautiful definition and a small unctuosity. On the palate this wine expresses notes of quite ripe raspberry, wild strawberry, small nots of crushed cassis associated with touches of violet, lily as well as hints of almond, nutmeg, very discreet hints of underwood, a subtle hint of cinnamon and bergamot. Tannins are finely firm. A fine salinity on the finish/persistence.