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Chateau Lynch-Bages (Pauillac) 1986

Two days before my 22nd wedding anniversary, I made rack of lamb with mushroom risotto and carrots and served this brilliant wine from our anniversary vintage. The Lynch-Bages is amazingly youthful. A very deep ruby with only a tiny bit of red brick at the rim. The intense bouquet suggests currants, dark berries, cloves, and menthol. The flavor associations on the palate are especially youthful. Not very much in the way of lether or cedar, but rather currant, berry, black cherry, and so on. A brilliant wine with a long future ahead of it. Grade: A