During a MOT walkabout tasting. Wonderful wine here, a big step ahead of the Belair-Monange. Complex nose of dark fruit and forest floor, silky tannins. Grand. 96+
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Closed nose but already smooth red plum, chocolate covered cherry, and cinammon palate and an epic 20-30 second finish. However, by the third glass the wine closed. Wait a few more years for this puppy.
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Painfully young, but an amazing vintage. Soars from the glass with beautiful floral notes, dark cherries, black olives and hints of chocolate. Well integrated and powerful tannins hem in laser focused fruit with exceptional layering and serious grainy savory character. Super firm and chiseled, this is powerfully structured and built to last, but ripe enough to bring some pleasure now. Finish is 30-45 seconds of enjoyment. Fantastic effort.
This is everything you'd expect from a great Pomerol in 2016. Clearly some money in the winemaking. Polished and drinking well already, though clearly upside.
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deep purple red color, dense black plums, cherries and concentrated spices on the cool nose, on the palate velvety flows of satiny plums with cherry topnotes and subtle spice, chocolate and dark earth form a gently flowing baseline, a young wine of great movement and density but already showing some subtlety, one of the few 2016s I really love, sadly one comes across Lafleur-Petrus very seldom here in the States- but that makes its occasional appearance all the more special, with Magdelaine now gone- Lafleur-Petrus gets my vote as the most overlooked treasure of Bordeaux, a long and glorious life ahead.
(****)+, 2036++
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Now incorporates all of what was Provinence. And another one too. Christian's father purchased in 1950. By 1970 Fleur was very good and very charming but only made from a pure gravel soil. So it was elegant but lacked verticiality he notes. He wanted soils that were slightly more clay. Le Gay. And a few acres between le Pin and Trotanoy. To increase the size and improve the quality is a big challange Christian notes. But he thinks with those additions that he has made has done just that.
So by the 1980s La Fleur has retained the elegance but gained the verticality. Always good to very good, and now has a chance to be one of the best wines of Pomerol. Not competing with Petrus, which is big powerful wine. Here more elegance.
The gravel apparently slightly coooks the grapes. Clay soils help when the vintage is dry. Yep, he said it, gravel soil makes them go to raisins. So adding mostly clay lots you get the best of two worlds. That is a hot vintage.
Rainy vintage the advantage to the gravel - drains but also refflects the sun getting them more ripe.
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Tighter and more tin soldier-like appearance on the aromas with good fruit feel of plums, licorice, salt and some charcoal that seduces. Pretty full-bodied wine that really explodes fruitfully along with pronounced freshness. Lots of black and red berries. More softness in the middle part. Sweet coffee and salts on a long finish with firm, yet so perfect tannins. Brilliant wine from Pomerol that will need plenty of time in the cellar.
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Smoke, truffle, earth, black plum and floral notes create the perfume. If that wasn't enough, from there you find a sensuous display of gorgeously ripe, sweet, fresh, elegant fruits that effortlessly glide across your palate. This is so sexy!
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Pomerol picks mid and high range in 2016 from bottle (Pomerol): This is gorgeous. As I had experienced from barrel, a candidate for top ten of the vintage and far better than the Hosanna, tasted just before. So much more lift andrefinement: a fantastic blend of 91% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc, it brings about floral aspects, ripe red and black fruit, subtle depth and more than evident length, leaving the taster with the impression of finesse and silk on the long finish. Aged in 50% new oak. OK, it costs about $220 per bottle, so only for those with the means… Or for very special occasions. Has the staying power to reward another 20+ years in your cellar.
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Matter of taste (London): More of clay component and a bit dusty to start off. Changes for the better though. Licorice, fruit, earth in a complex mix where nothing takes the upper hand. Soft impression and superfine tannin. Excellent long balanced finish. 94-96p
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Barrel sample. The wine was dark purple in colour and offered nice red and dark fruit aromas, beetroot, some chocolate and some vanilla on the nose. On the palate, the wine showed red and dark fruit, chocolate, coffee, some spice and vanilla, with medium-level acidity, ripe, smooth tannin and very good length. The oak was present, but less obvious than in some of the other samples. The medium-bodied wine was very smooth and well-balanced, with good complexity and very good concentration. Seductive!
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A parfait of roses, plums, chocolate, truffles, smoke, spice and cherry blossoms creates the nose. Draped in silk, sensuous with lambskin tannins, the wine is the flossy librarian with her hair down -- an intellectual Pomerol that also delivers sensuality.
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3/3/2024 - Collector1855 wrote: 96 Points
During a MOT walkabout tasting. Wonderful wine here, a big step ahead of the Belair-Monange. Complex nose of dark fruit and forest floor, silky tannins. Grand. 96+
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1/2/2023 - Lord of the Bottles Likes this wine: 94 Points
Closed nose but already smooth red plum, chocolate covered cherry, and cinammon palate and an epic 20-30 second finish. However, by the third glass the wine closed. Wait a few more years for this puppy.
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5/25/2022 - Cristal2000 Likes this wine: 97 Points
Painfully young, but an amazing vintage. Soars from the glass with beautiful floral notes, dark cherries, black olives and hints of chocolate. Well integrated and powerful tannins hem in laser focused fruit with exceptional layering and serious grainy savory character. Super firm and chiseled, this is powerfully structured and built to last, but ripe enough to bring some pleasure now. Finish is 30-45 seconds of enjoyment. Fantastic effort.
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3/29/2022 - jmoon Likes this wine: 94 Points
Beautiful wine. Lifted fruit, soaring, energetic. Still coiled but enjoyable at this young age.
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3/25/2022 - ThomasV Likes this wine: 97 Points
This is everything you'd expect from a great Pomerol in 2016. Clearly some money in the winemaking. Polished and drinking well already, though clearly upside.
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12/11/2021 - Elpaninaro Likes this wine:
deep purple red color, dense black plums, cherries and concentrated spices on the cool nose, on the palate velvety flows of satiny plums with cherry topnotes and subtle spice, chocolate and dark earth form a gently flowing baseline, a young wine of great movement and density but already showing some subtlety, one of the few 2016s I really love, sadly one comes across Lafleur-Petrus very seldom here in the States- but that makes its occasional appearance all the more special, with Magdelaine now gone- Lafleur-Petrus gets my vote as the most overlooked treasure of Bordeaux, a long and glorious life ahead.
(****)+, 2036++
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6/9/2021 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
Now incorporates all of what was Provinence. And another one too. Christian's father purchased in 1950. By 1970 Fleur was very good and very charming but only made from a pure gravel soil. So it was elegant but lacked verticiality he notes. He wanted soils that were slightly more clay. Le Gay. And a few acres between le Pin and Trotanoy. To increase the size and improve the quality is a big challange Christian notes. But he thinks with those additions that he has made has done just that.
So by the 1980s La Fleur has retained the elegance but gained the verticality. Always good to very good, and now has a chance to be one of the best wines of Pomerol. Not competing with Petrus, which is big powerful wine. Here more elegance.
The gravel apparently slightly coooks the grapes. Clay soils help when the vintage is dry. Yep, he said it, gravel soil makes them go to raisins. So adding mostly clay lots you get the best of two worlds. That is a hot vintage.
Rainy vintage the advantage to the gravel - drains but also refflects the sun getting them more ripe.
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11/28/2019 - Andre Brattland wrote: 96 Points
91% Merlot and 9% Cabernet Franc. 14% alcohol.
Tighter and more tin soldier-like appearance on the aromas with good fruit feel of plums, licorice, salt and some charcoal that seduces. Pretty full-bodied wine that really explodes fruitfully along with pronounced freshness. Lots of black and red berries. More softness in the middle part. Sweet coffee and salts on a long finish with firm, yet so perfect tannins. Brilliant wine from Pomerol that will need plenty of time in the cellar.
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9/21/2019 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 Points
Smoke, truffle, earth, black plum and floral notes create the perfume. If that wasn't enough, from there you find a sensuous display of gorgeously ripe, sweet, fresh, elegant fruits that effortlessly glide across your palate. This is so sexy!
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11/6/2018 - PanosKakaviatos Likes this wine: 98 Points
Pomerol picks mid and high range in 2016 from bottle (Pomerol): This is gorgeous. As I had experienced from barrel, a candidate for top ten of the vintage and far better than the Hosanna, tasted just before. So much more lift andrefinement: a fantastic blend of 91% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc, it brings about floral aspects, ripe red and black fruit, subtle depth and more than evident length, leaving the taster with the impression of finesse and silk on the long finish. Aged in 50% new oak. OK, it costs about $220 per bottle, so only for those with the means… Or for very special occasions. Has the staying power to reward another 20+ years in your cellar.
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10/27/2018 - Mascarello59 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Matter of taste (London): More of clay component and a bit dusty to start off. Changes for the better though. Licorice, fruit, earth in a complex mix where nothing takes the upper hand. Soft impression and superfine tannin. Excellent long balanced finish. 94-96p
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6/22/2017 - PSPatrick wrote: 94 Points
Barrel sample. The wine was dark purple in colour and offered nice red and dark fruit aromas, beetroot, some chocolate and some vanilla on the nose. On the palate, the wine showed red and dark fruit, chocolate, coffee, some spice and vanilla, with medium-level acidity, ripe, smooth tannin and very good length. The oak was present, but less obvious than in some of the other samples. The medium-bodied wine was very smooth and well-balanced, with good complexity and very good concentration. Seductive!
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5/28/2017 - wineappellation Likes this wine: 94 Points
2016 En Primeur (tasted 26 May 2017) -Complex floral, spices, elegant ripe red and blue fruits, quite precise, a bit understated.
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4/29/2017 - Jeff Leve wrote: 95 Points
A parfait of roses, plums, chocolate, truffles, smoke, spice and cherry blossoms creates the nose. Draped in silk, sensuous with lambskin tannins, the wine is the flossy librarian with her hair down -- an intellectual Pomerol that also delivers sensuality.
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