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2018 Château L'Eglise-Clinet

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case

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ITEM 10620097 - Removed from a temperature and humidity controlled wine cellar

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2018 Château L'Eglise-Clinet
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2018 Château L'Eglise-Clinet

RATINGS

99Jeb Dunnuck

...awesome, full-bodied, opulent personality as well as classic Pomerol notes of blackcurrants, black cherries, damp earth, chocolate, tobacco, and flowers. Rich, concentrated, and sexy, yet not over the top in any way, it expands on the palate, has sweet tannins, background oak, and a great, great finish.

98The Wine Advocate

...stunning fragrant-earth perfume, accented by notions of wild mushrooms, mossy tree bark and crushed rocks, giving way to a core of black raspberries, plum preserves and fresh blueberries, plus wafts of lavender and clove oil. Medium to full-bodied, the palate shimmers with energy, delivering slow-releasing black fruit and earthy layers, framed by very ripe, finely grained tannins and fantastic tension. It finishes with epic length and subtlety.

98James Suckling

Blue and black fruit with spices and licorice on the nose. Graphite, too. Full and dense, but compact on the palate, with a plush yet tight, velvety texture and a long, fantastic finish.

97Vinous / IWC

...precocious, pure and finely chiseled, featuring copious black plum and blueberry plus heart-melting violet petal scents...palate closely approximates the barrel sample with its stunning precision and symmetry. Velvety-smooth from start to finish...

17.5+ Jancis Robinson

High toned. Sweet and then rather challengingly tart on the end.

PRODUCER

Château L'Eglise-Clinet

Château L’Eglise-Client in Pomerol has some of the region’s oldest vines, with some vines dating back 100 years. The 11.2-acre estate also has in the last 25 years produced some of the Pomerol’s most acclaimed wines. The family run enterprise dates to the 18th century, and it is currently run by Denis Durantou, great-great grandson of the man who originally acquired the plots of land that now make up the vineyards. Robert M. Parker Jr. has written that “one cannot applaud the effort of Denis Durantou enough.” About 85 % of the land is planted to Merlot, with 15 % in Cabernet Franc. Annually 12,000 to 15,000 bottles of Château L’Eglise-Clinet are produced. There is no classification of wines in Pomerol.

REGION

France, Bordeaux, Pomerol

Pomerol is the smallest of Bordeaux’s red wine producing regions, with only about 2,000 acres of vineyards. Located on the east side of the Dordogne River, it is one of the so-called “right bank” appellations and therefore planted primarily to Merlot. Pomerol is unique in Bordeaux in that it is the only district never to have been rated in a classification system. Some historians think Pomerol’s location on the right bank made it unattractive to Bordeaux-based wine traders, who had plenty of wine from Medoc and Graves to export to England and northern Europe. Since ranking estates was essentially a marketing ploy to help brokers sell wine, ranking an area where they did little business held no interest for them. Pomerol didn’t get much attention from the international wine community until the 1960s, when Jean-Pierre Moueix, an entrepreneurial wine merchant, started buying some of Pomerol’s best estates and exporting the wines. Today the influential Moueix family owns Pomerol’s most famous estate, Château Pétrus, along with numerous other Pomerol estates. Pomerol wines, primarily Merlot blended with small amounts of Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon, are considered softer and less tannic than left bank Bordeaux.