2006 Château Lafleur

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  1/18/2024 - oxwombat Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Served at Club Batard's pre-opening drinks from Magnum. Unsure how long it had been opened for before pouring.
  
  Very generous of the team to be sharing this. No extensive notes taken but even from a small sample you could tell there's a lot of fruit there which should open up with more air. Still fresh, but exhibiting some hints of development making it a well rounded Bordeaux. I imagine there's some upside, and would be happy to seek out again.

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  5/15/2022 - Cailles wrote: 93 Points

  6 Vintages Le Pin vs Petrus vs Lafleur vs Other Pomerol: All wines tasted single blind, not decanted. Served in 6 vintage flights with a alternating 4th Pomerol added to every flight. A few observations: 1) Le Pin handily won this tasting, for me (4 out of 6 vintages at 96/97 pts) and the consensus. Made in a charming way, with loads of perfectly integrated, luxurious oak-derived notes, this wines drink well young and works very well in a larger tasting like this were you can’t follow the wines over an evening. Complex, round, intense, sexy yet elegant. 2) Lafleur came in second, despite mostly only hinting at its potential with very high complexity, it’s wonderful, typical herbal and earthy notes, all embedded in an impeccable, light structural frame. But they need time. 3) Most vintages of Petrus underperformed tonight (all below 95 pts). They would have needed more time to open up and come together. 4) 2009/10 vintages are great and unsurprisingly got the highest scores, 2008 confirmed it status as a Bdx vintage that is excellent to drink today. More information/rankings in the tasting story.
  
  TN: Rather uninspiring, non-descript nose. On the palate this is the cleanest, most precise wine of the flight displaying fresh fruit, herbs, minerality. As all 2006s not that complex. Round but slightly coarse tannins, good freshness, ok creaminess, medium length with fruit and rocks. Overall, this is no winner but certainly a good wine with a bit more potential. 92/93 pts
  
  Decanting: My guess is, that this would have been better with 2-3 hours in the decanter.

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  5/11/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 93 Points

  Petrus vs. Le Pin vs. Lafleur 2004-2011, blind (Fribourg): Rich, ripe and extracted, dark fruit with herbal notes. Dense palate, tertiary notes emerging, slightly bitter finish.

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  5/9/2022 - sirpat00 wrote: 92 Points

  Pétrus vs Lafleur vs Le Pin (Fribourg): 6 vintage face-off (2006-2011) Pétrus vs Lafleur vs Le Pin vs alternating Pomerol pirate. The wines were served in vintage flights of 4 and not decanted. Main observations were: 1/ Le Pin knocked it out of the park coming in first in 4 out of 6 vintages while Pétrus came in last with not a single vintage win (Lafleur came in best in two off-vintages, 2006 and 2008), 2/ The best overall vintage was 2009 (runner-up 2010) while 2006 came in last (scoring range 85-92), 3/ best bottle was Le Pin 2009 (99), followed by Pétrus 2010 and Le Pin 2010 (98 each), 4/ best pirate was Clos L’Eglise 2009 (97). List of wines per score included in the tasting story.
  
  Tasting note:
  A cheese note kind of pops up from the glass which adds a distinctive, even if not necessarily pleasant, feature. There was also a fleshy, meaty dimension along with a bit more refined, quite fresh fruit. Palate was less tannic than for the others in the vintage, but that just left too much acidity.

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  7/21/2021 - rocknroller wrote:

  Heidi's Redux: A Night to Remember (St. Genevieve, Mpls, MN): Very dark red/purple color. Double decanted for 2 hours. Followed a glass for an hour. Same bottle as Chablis28 and I will echo his thoughts entirely. The nose was more open tonight, but the palate was not ready to loosen up or come together. The nose is savory, very dark fruited, wood, dense, graphite, and some heat. The palate is tight with firm, aggressive tannins, savory, oak, plum and blackberry with alcohol showing. Not ready for prime time, 90 to 91pt impression currently.

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