I taste this wine the other day with some lamb chops. The Chateau's website was not forthcoming about this vintage, but it seemed that it did well in tasting of Cru Classe from 2010 carried out by Decanter this April. It was among 9 wines which got awarded an average of 17.5 points out of 20 at the tasting and Decanter "translates" it to 91 points on the conventional 100-point scale. These nine included wines from the First to the Fifth Growths: Beychevelle, Calon-Segur, Desmirail, Lascombe, Latour, Lynch-Bages, Lynch-Moussas, Margaux, St-Pierre in alphabetical order as listed in Decanter. Can't be bad to be mentioned in the same breath as Margaux and Latour!
As for the wine, it was dark at its core with a deep purple ruby rim. The nose was rich with berry and wood notes. The palate was sweet and fruity, but also containing savoury notes and a good smattering of acid which gace good support as the wine's backbone accompanied by a sprinkling of tannin.
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