Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Saturday, July 16, 2011 - K & J's Wedding Dinner (Intercontinental Hotel, Singapore): A good wine, clearly a St Emilion from a strong year when blinded (I thought 1990) - so it caused quite a stir when B first told us that it was a 1989 Lafleur and our minds all jumped to the (far more expensive) Pomerol property - it was certainly good, but not quite that breathtaking! There was a nice right-bank nose here, with scorched earth, a touch of sweet dark cherries and berries, some cocoa, smoke and spice, classic stuff. This was another wine that was at a nice place on the palate as well. Here, the mouthfeel had nicely resolved into a cloak of fine, velvety tannins wed to still nicely bright acidity which formed the backdrop for nice flavours of dark cherries and a seam of limestoney minerality. Quite complete actually, with the wine pulling away in a long finish with flecks of stone and earth and spice and smoke. Not terribly complex, but very pleasant indeed. A good wine.

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