2020 | Chteau Lafleur | Pomerol

Red Wine: 2020 | Chteau Lafleur | Pomerol

The nose is pure, airy, and precise. Dark fruit notes are driven with some lifted floral violet scent.

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Producer: Chteau Lafleur

Ratings: F | 99 WM | 99

Vintage: 2020

Size: 750ml

ABV: 15%

Varietal: Cabernet Franc, Merlot

Country/Region: France, Bordeaux

The nose is pure, airy, and precise. Dark fruit notes are driven with some lifted floral violet scent. On the palate it is dense, charged with black fruit flavours, accompanying its delicately placed ripe tannins.

Reviews:

• Falstaff: Smoky wood. Herbs, dark chocolate. At the beginning still buttery, very closed, liquorice and extremely ripe elderberry. With air, black currant and Cuban tobacco. In the mouth an immense tannin density, but at the same time so fine and so creamy. The plump, round mid-palate leads seamlessly into a juicy, mineral finish. Tobacco on the finish. A perfectly round, inherently homogenous amalgam. More substance is hardly to be accommodated in such a mellow ensemble without losing freshness and a certain light-footedness.

• Wine Maniacs: The nose is pure, airy, and precise. Dark fruit notes are driven with some lifted floral violet scent. On the palate it is dense, charged with black fruit flavours, accompanying its delicately placed ripe tannins. Happily the wine retains its DNA of the house, elegance and profoundness.

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.