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2016 Château Lafleur

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August 6, 2023 - $1,300

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RATINGS

99The Wine Advocate

...gorgeous, beguiling scents of truffles, black soil, crushed rocks and smoked meats, giving way to a beautiful perfume of red roses, dark chocolate-covered cherries, oolong tea and lavender with wafts of cigar box and iron ore. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is completely coated with taut, tightly wound yet ethereally weighted layers of earth, mineral and perfumed black fruits, firmly fixed by very fine-grained tannins and great freshness, finishing very long and incredibly fragrant.

99Vinous / IWC

Creamy and voluptuous in the glass...exceptional balance...superb textural intensity allied to soaring aromatics...brilliante and layers of saline-infused energy. Rose petal, mint, crushed flowers and dark red fruits abound...

99James Suckling

...so memorable...incredible tannins are so fine and creamy that they envelop both your mouth and your mind...full-bodied yet ethereal and balanced with incredibly energy and character. The flavors just keep on changing, from cherries and currants to truffles and earth. Some brick and terracotta, too. Fresh throughout with complete clarity. Great structure, yet creamy and light.

99Jeb Dunnuck

...heavenly notes of raspberries, blueberries, camphor, dried flowers, and ground herbs... Full-bodied, beautifully concentrated, ultra-pure, and seamless...flawless balance as well as a monster finish.

19Jancis Robinson

Sweet, open and inky on the nose. Massive density and great balance. Lots of fine tannins. Fine-boned wine. Complete and neat. No excesses.

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.