2008 Château Lafleur

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 94.8 points

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  12/17/2022 - mpoel Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Paired against Hosanna - another league. Much younger in colour. More fresh and concentrated. Amazing length. Still a bright future ahead

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  11/19/2022 - Mag357 Likes this wine:

  Acker JK 51st birthday in NYC. Small glass quick note. All black fruited and mocha nose, black fruited flavors wrapped in a solid tannic frame but fine boned, concentrated, long aftertaste.

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  5/15/2022 - Cailles wrote: 94 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: Extracted, nutty, ripe dark fruit nose. Herbs and minerality to compliment. On the palate quite fresh and round, beautiful creaminess and enough tension. Again nutty notes, some toast, ripe dark fruit, some herbs. Overall quite good but not the most complex wine and a slightly abrupt finish. 93/94 pts.
  
  Decanting: Like most Lafleurs this needs time to open up. I guess it would have been better with 2, 3 hours in the decanter.

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  5/11/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 95 Points

  Petrus vs. Le Pin vs. Lafleur 2004-2011, blind (Fribourg): Expressive nose, rich and ripe, a bit too fore-square for a higher score. Gets better on the palate, riper fruit here as well, good structure and finish. Solid but but not grand and behind the others who did very well in 2008.

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  5/9/2022 - sirpat00 wrote: 95 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:
  This initially left you with a lactic, boiled egg character along with some earthy notes and mushrooms. Fruit rather in the background, but coming forward with a bit of aeration with the lactic notes dissipating into a nice and earthy frame. Dense and concentrated, but hitting the extraction G-spot. On the palate fresh and muscular while showing nice integration with the grippy tannins built well into the structure.

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