Community Tasting Note

sirpat00 wrote:

Monday, May 9, 2022 - 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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