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An excellent bottle from the '88 vintage.
Good clean and complete label and capsule and a level in neck/base of neck.
Some recent Cellartracker comments:
8/2016 - nywine68 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Enjoyable wine. First impression was that the body was rather thin but with some time in the glass the wine has really opened up and despite the lack of heft, it has an intense fruit profile and good medium length finish. The bottle was in great shape with a medium to top neck fill and the wine is incredibly fresh and vibrant considering its 28 years of age.
4/20/2016 - Thoughtful Likes this wine: 90 Points
Stored in a cold cellar since release. High fill. Excellent condition and colour. Good fruit, some tannin. Medium bodied, well balanced. Classic St Julien. Just needs more concentration. Drink soon.
12/3/2014 - johnh1001 wrote: 91 Points
Nicely mature nose of herbs, dark fruit, smoke, leather and asphalt. Surprisingly full on the palate. Nice depth and balance.
I had the privilege to have Marcel Ducasse as the 'wine taster' in wine college in Bordeaux. Shortly after, he left to become manager at Château Lagrange, the "sleeping beauty" of St Julien. He retired in 2007. Consequently I have a soft spot for Ch Lagrange.
It is impossible to ignore the enormous change at Château Lagrange under Ducasse's leadership. Classified as a 3rd growth in Médoc Classification of 1855, it is the largest classified property in the Médoc. With vineyards adjacent to Gruaud Larose in the centre of St. Julien, it is positioned to make great wine. Despite many marvellous bottles of the 1970 Château Lagrange I've consumed, most of the wines prior to 1983, when Ducasse took over, were mediocre at best and often very poor indeed. But, since then the wines have been first-rate and consistently underpriced, although that is changing slowly as the reputation of the wines catch up to their quality.
Late in 1983, the Japanese drinks company, Suntory, purchased Lagrange for about $10 million from a Spanish family who, as Ducasse puts it, "were always arguing with one another." The property had deteriorated severely because for years no one was in charge or cared about the wines. Suntory, with advice from Michel Delon, the proprietor of Château Léoville Las Cases, immediately hired Ducasse. It turned out to be a brilliant move.
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