1996 Château Lafleur

Community Tasting Notes (30) Avg Score: 92.0 points

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  4/4/2024 - dcwino wrote: flawed

  Another Wine gathering at RJ’s; 4/4/2024-4/7/2024 (Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina): Corked, unfortunately.

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  1/30/2024 - Montesquieu Likes this wine: 96 Points

  La Vie du Vin featuring Chateau Lafleur, Omri Ram, Martine's Wines, and Chef Tim Hollingsworth (Blackberry Farm, TN): Fabulously advanced in its tertiary stage. Full of mushroom, truffle, moist soil. I found this to be far superior on my rating scale than most other CT reviewers. Exactly what I want in a great aged Bordeaux that turns tertiary.

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  1/15/2023 - the player Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Beautiful ruby color with bricking throughout the wine showing it has matured. Outstanding nose of blackberries, blueberries, spice cake, truffles, cassis, tobacco, lots of tertiary aromas. On the palate very delicate and burgundian in structure, good lift mid palate and superbly balanced structure, medium bodied and hedonistic but finishes a bit thin hence the lower score. Still a beautiful wine and a privilege to drink Lafleur in any vintage.

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  11/19/2022 - valedeniro wrote: 94 Points

  Mature red colour with clear brick on the rim.Beautiful nuanced perfumed nose with dark and red fruit,truffle,leather,spices,smoke .... Not a blockbuster,but a very delicious classic Pomerol with an almost Burgundian elegance.So complex,fresh and smooth,it drinks like a charm.Bottles like this could easily last another 5-10 years or even more.Lovely !

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  9/15/2022 - ESCO wrote: 91 Points

  Our last bottle . Great sadness . I so wanted to write a review that praised this wine to the sky. I have looked after, literally looked after , this wine for 25 years because I hoped it would be magnificent.
  
  It is really interesting , challenging and unique. But what it isn't is the fabulous wine I had hoped. Enough negativity...this wine is so contrary I hardly know where to start. Plums, liquorice and a cassis backdrop. A nose to die for. But , but , but, just not complete if you know what I mean.Superb delineation in acidity, and an expressive velvety mouthfeel lead you to the gates of paradise but you never get in.
  
  I imagine, because I honestly don't know , that great vintages of this wine must be amongst the best in the world.

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