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2010 Château La Pointe

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April 30, 2023 - $56

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RATINGS

93The Wine Advocate

...bouquet with black fruit laced with truffle and a touch of iron filings...intense graphite finish that might lead you astray to the Left Bank, and the aftertaste remains long and satisfying.

93Wine Spectator

...torrent of boysenberry, fig and raspberry fruit held in check by charcoal-studded grip and well-embedded acidity.

93Wine Enthusiast

Big, firm, with dense tannins that underly the ripe, dark berry and plum skin fruit flavors. Very powerful, the almost shocking acidity a cutting edge of freshness. Hugely juicy aftertaste.

87-90Vinous / IWC

Raspberry, smoke and flowers on the nose... Bright and juicy on the palate, with solid underlying structure to the floral red berry, black plum and lead pencil flavors. Finishes clean and long, with smooth, creamy tannins.

16.5Jancis Robinson

Cake, blackcurrants and softened tannins. Gentle structure, intense fruit. Modern and big.

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.