2020 | Chteau Lafleur | Les Pensees de Lafleur

Red Wine: 2020 | Chteau Lafleur | Les Pensees de Lafleur

A lovely round and juicy wine, with blackberry and milk chocolate and velvety tannins. Full and very attractive. Texture is everything here. The second wine of Lafleur.

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Producer: Chteau Lafleur

Ratings: VN | 95 JS | 94

Vintage: 2020

Size: 750ml

ABV: 15%

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend Red

Country/Region: France, Bordeaux

A lovely round and juicy wine, with blackberry and milk chocolate and velvety tannins. Full and very attractive. Texture is everything here. The second wine of Lafleur.

Reviews:

• Vinous: The 2020 Les Penses (they have dropped the de Lafleur) is a blend of 29% Merlot and 71% Cabernet Franc picked September 1119. This is backward at first and needs some coaxing from the glass, almost reluctantly offering blackberry, crushed stone, violet and incense. The palate is silky-smooth on the entry, deep and pixelated, armed with a killer line of acidity and a very cool and sophisticated, beguiling finish.

• James Suckling: A lovely round and juicy wine, with blackberry and milk chocolate and velvety tannins. Full and very attractive. Texture is everything here. The second wine of Lafleur. 65% Merlot and 35% Cabernet Franc.

Producer Information

Chteau Lafleur is a tiny (4.5ha, 11 acres) family-run property in the Pomerol appellation on Bordeaux’s Right Bank. Its grand vin of the same name, a combination of Merlot and Cabernet Franc, is known for its concentration, creamy texture, intense black fruits and spicy character. The wine is also powerfully structured and needs more cellaring than most wines in the appellation. In the best vintages it can last half a century. Famous US wine critic Robert Parker has called it “one of the most distinctive, most exotic, and greatest wines not only in Pomerol, but in the world”. Thanks in part to regular praise from Parker, who first visited in 1975, it is one of the most sought-after and highest priced wines on our database. Lafleur was founded in 1872 when Henri Greloud, the owner of Chteau Le Gay, bought the plot. It remains in the family and is now run his great, great grandchildren Jacques and Sylvie Guinaudeau. There are now six distinct vineyards (or groups of parcels) within the portfolio, each corresponding to a distinct wine.