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Château Lyonnat 2009 Emotion Red (Lussac Saint-Emilion)
- $48
It’s the 100% Merlot that gives the alcohol and superripe fruit to this wine, redeemed by the acidity. Licorice and dark chocolate flavors go with the sweetest plums and spice. Age for 3–4 years.
— R.V.
(2/1/2012)
Château Lyonnat 2009 Red (Lussac Saint-Emilion)
- $27
Firm, richly dark wine from the Saint-Èmilion satellite village of Lussac, with chocolate and coffee flavor, layers of wood and spice. It is packed with ripe plum and black cherry fruits, weighty and already concentrated.
— R.V.
(2/1/2012)
Château la Croix de l’Esperance 2003 Red (Lussac Saint-Emilion)
- $55
Taking advantage of the very ripe grapes of 2003, Bernard Magrez’s winemakers pulled all the richness out of the fruit and into this intensely sweet, dark wine, with its black plums and fig flavors. The wood is all around this fruit, dense and spicy.
— R.V.
(6/1/2008)
Château Michel de Vert 2003 Red (Lussac Saint-Emilion)
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- $9
Lussac is one of the so-called satellites of Saint-Emilion (villages that attach the magic Saint-Emilion name to their own). But it does have many attractive wines that emulate Saint-Emilion in every way except the high price. This wine, a blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, with a combination of dry austere blackcurrant fruit and sweet tannins, has that…
— R.V.
(11/15/2005)
Château du Courlat 2004 Cuvée Jean-Baptiste Red (Lussac Saint-Emilion)
Named after Jean-Baptiste Audy, a wine merchant and the grandfather of the present owner, this is the top wine from Courlat. It’s highly polished, the new wood smoothing out the rough edges of the dry fruit tannins. It has good fresh fruit and acidity to finish.
— R.V.
(6/1/2007)
Château Croix de Rambeau 2004 Red (Lussac Saint-Emilion)
- $20
A rich, succulent wine, full of ripe black currant and spice flavors, wrapped around a core of dry tannins. This is a wine that needs time to develop, but with its toast and other wood flavors and its weighty fruit, it should show well in five years.
— R.V.
(6/1/2007)
Château La Grande Clotte 2010 Barrel sample Red (Lussac Saint-Emilion)
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86-88 Firmly tannic, stalky with black currant and an edge of extracted bitterness.
— R.V.
(6/25/2011)
Chateau de Lussac 2000 Le Libertin de Lussac Red (Lussac Saint-Emilion)
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- $25
With its aromas and flavors of plum and leather and subtle hints of vanila, this is a supple, medium-weight Bordeaux that's ready to drink. No, it's not that intense or complex, it's just a pleasing mouthful of claret.
— J.C.
(11/15/2005)
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