2009 Clos l'Église (Pomerol)

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 94.5 points

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  2/3/2024 - popopdrops Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Ikke dekantert. Magnum. Nølende uvennlig første glass, som ga seg når vi inntok den herligste oksekjake tenkes kan. Derfra og utover bedre og bedre. Små snev av eik på tross av 100% ny. Balanse, mektig, vil deg vel. Hva mer kan forlanges?

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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: This is quite a sexy 2009 with lots of chocolate and oaky notes and loads of ripe but not overripe fruit on the nose and palate. The nose needed a bit of time and was never fully convincing but the round and harmonious palate showed quite good and complete. All in all, it held up well against its Pomerol heavyweight neighbors in this vintage and was drinking well but of course it did not have remotely as much complexity, a bit lower precision and was a touch less fresh and light too. Nevertheless, a very good wine. 92/93 pts
  
  Decanting: A short decant should be sufficient.

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  5/11/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 96 Points

  Petrus vs. Le Pin vs. Lafleur 2004-2011, blind (Fribourg): Ripe nose here, a bit too ripe?. Dark fruit, oak. Structured palate, a touch drying but very good still. A more Napaesque showing but within acceptable limits. Held its own as a pirate in this flight and was liked by many at the table. 96+

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  5/9/2022 - sirpat00 wrote: 97 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:
  Tobacco, cigar box and a bit of roasted coffee beans complement an array of pure mixed berry fruits. The nose is hitting bulls eye! But quite tannic on the palate and not entirely integrated yet.

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  10/8/2020 - Matt Scott Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Decanted for an hour. A gorgeous garnet colour. Very youthful, with a full body and quite silky, layered tannins, and a luscious profile. Although this is quite concentrated, there’s an edge of elegance that remains. Chocolate pudding, flower shop, plum preserves and truffles, with some welcomed Moroccan spice. Just starting to open, I would decant or still wait a couple of years, then study for many. The finish sails on. Drink 2022 -.

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