John Gilman: The 2010 Lynch-Bages is one of the stars of the Left Bank this year; the Cazes family has fashioned a superb and perfectly balanced example of the vintage. The deep and complex nose soars from the glass in a melange of cassis, dark berries, espresso, cigar ash, a touch of lead pencil, gravel, leafy young Cabernet tones, and cedar. On the palate, the wine is deep, full-bodied, complex, and most impressively soil-driven, with a fine core of pure fruit, excellent focus and balance, bright, well-integrated acids, and fine length and grip on the ripely tannic and beautifully delineated finish. A fine, fine vintage for Lynch-Bages. 2022–75. 18.5/19