John Gilman 92 pts! The 1986 Lagrange is a beautiful example of the vintage, as it delivers the purity, structural impact and depth of fruit that the best wines of the Médoc display in this vintage. The vintage is made up of a blend of fifty-seven percent cabernet sauvignon and forty-three percent merlot. The bouquet is beginning to show a lovely layer of secondary aromatics in its mélange of black cherries, cassis, dark chocolate, a bit of tobacco and deep, pure soil tones. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, vibrant and rock solid at the core, with lovely complexity, plenty of ripe, substantial tannins, and excellent length and grip on the finish. I would opt for giving the ’86 Lagrange another four or five years cellaring before having at it in earnest, but it is blossoming beautifully, and should prove to be a long-lived and excellent example of the ’86 vintage. (Drink between 2012 - 2040)