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1998 Château L'Eglise-Clinet

Red Bordeaux Blend

  • France
  • Bordeaux
  • Libournais
  • Pomerol
Drink between 2012 - 2034 (Edit)
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Community Tasting Notes 53

  • hectic Likes this wine: 97 points

    September 1, 2023 - Half hour decant. The tannins are fully resolved. There is a combination of residual dark fruit and balanced acidity mixed with tertiary scents and flavors. A fantastic wine. Restaurant Lalique at Chateau Lafaurie-Peyraguey.

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  • havana4 🍾🍇 Likes this wine: 91 points

    August 13, 2023 - Beautiful claret nose but the palate was a bit lean for my taste. A little unbalanced as far as lacking enough fruit. All the tertiary elements were certainly there(smoke, game, damp musty forest floor), but it just was just not hitting it with the fruit keeping up.

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  • dream Likes this wine: 96 points

    July 21, 2023 - I literally can't imagine a wine that captures the smell of a top Pomerol like this one. Then on the palate it shows a silky-fine, zen-like texture with wonderful flavors of black fruits, sweet dark earth and savory smoked meats and perfect acidity. It finishes with great precision and persistence and shows complex notes of minerals, fine silt and spices. Easily one of the wines of this great right bank vintage.

    2 people found this helpful Comment
  • MasterWis Likes this wine: 95 points

    June 22, 2023 - Very big wine, still in the making. Not much else to say except that if’s great and you should give it ample time to open up

    1 person found this helpful Comment
  • dream Likes this wine: 96 points

    December 31, 2022 - An extraordinary showing tonight and it outclassed the '98 VCC which is no easy task. This wine just has more precision and clarity with deep dark fruits and superb acid lift. Very fresh and youthful but the hard shell is beginning to open and there is a fantastic complexity developing on the finish with notes of truffles, spices and minerals. Stunning and with upside! Decanted 4 hours. 96+

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  • By John Gilman
    Mar/Apr 2022, Issue #98, The Stunning 1998 Vintage On Bordeaux’s Right Bank

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  • By Neal Martin
    The Wines That Shaped My Life (Mar 2022), 3/1/2022 (link)

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    Precious Clay: L’Eglise-Clinet 1929–2015 (Jul 2019), 7/1/2019 (link)

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  • By Jancis Robinson, MW
    6/9/2017 (link)

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  • By James Suckling
    6/12/2016 (link)

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  • By Chris Kissack
    April 2015, 4/1/2015 (link)

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  • By Jancis Robinson, MW
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  • By Stephen Tanzer
    May/June 2000, IWC Issue #90 (link)

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    May/June 1999, IWC Issue #84 (link)

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Wine Definition

  • Vintage 1998
  • Type Red
  • Producer Château L'Eglise-Clinet
  • Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
  • Designation n/a
  • Vineyard n/a
  • Country France
  • Region Bordeaux
  • SubRegion Libournais
  • Appellation Pomerol
  • UPC Code 0400007365209

Community Holdings

  • Pending Delivery 14 (1%)
  • In Cellars 981 (69%)
  • Consumed 435 (30%)

Food Pairing

Community Recommendations

grilled bavette, grilled quail

Who Likes This Wine

95% Like It  21 votes

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