2021 Echo de Lynch-Bages, Pauillac

A little more angularity to the tannins than the Ormes de Pez, a little more serious overall, very much in the Pauillac spirit. This gets better as it opens, it has good balance and plenty of freshness, 11% new oak, rest one year old. 3.7ph.
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux, May 2022

The 2021 Echo Lynch Bages is a dark brooding wine in this vintage. There is a good deal of depth, but also some rough edges that need polishing. Echo is neither finessed nor charming today, but that is what élevage is for. Antonio Galloni, Vinous, May 2022

The 2021 Echo de Lynch-Bages is a chunky, flavorful red, exhibiting aromas of cassis, minty blackberries, creamy new oak and fresh herbs. Medium to full-bodied, lively and youthfully structured, time will likely tame its slight rusticity.

The 2021 Echo de Lynch-Bages has a clean and pure bouquet, blackberry and bilberry fruit, a subtle marine/estuarine influence in the background. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannins on the entry, moderate weight and depth, gentle grip with a touch of graphite on the finish. It needs to knit together during barrel maturation, and I have little doubt that it will. 13.1% alcohol.

Offering up aromas of minty cassis and blackberries mingled with loamy soil, the 2021 Echo de Lynch-Bages is a medium to full-bodied, lively and charming wine that's nicely balanced, but not especially deep or penetrating.
William Kelley, April 2022

Tasted blind. Second bottle – direct, frank fruit on the nose but very hollow and ungenerous on the palate. Hard work. (JR)