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2009 Château La Fleur Petrus

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RATINGS

97The Wine Advocate

...rolls out of the glass with sensuous kirsch, black cherry preserves and chocolate box scents with touches of unsmoked cigars, dried mint and star anise. Full-bodied, rich and opulently fruited in the mouth, it has beautiful red fruit sparks and a finely grained frame, finishing long and lively.

97Jeb Dunnuck

...deep, layered bouquet of blackberries, plums, chocolate, dried flowers, and earth. A big, voluptuous, opulent example of this cuvée, with a power-packed, deep, rich style, it has ripe tannin and a huge finish.

96Wine Enthusiast

There is great fruit here, rounded and powerful with the ripest character...open, generous, ready to drink. The tannins lead into the purest acidity, letting the fruit sing.

95James Suckling

Brimming with blackberry and sandalwood aromas...very seductive... On the palate this is self-confidently dry, sleeker and more linear than the nose suggests. Very firm finish...

93Vinous / IWC

...plenty of black truffle infused red fruit, crushed rose petals and veins of dark chocolate...medium-bodied with fine grip and good tension. Pure red and black fruit intermingle with balsamic and white pepper notes, displaying fine precision and length.

93+ Stephen Tanzer

Reticent nose hints at plum. Fat, sweet and voluminous, with mouthfilling plum and cherry fruit flavors complicated by smoke and underbrush. This seriously concentrated and firmly structured wine is most impressive today on the long...

89-91+ John Gilman

...nose is deep and classy, as it offers up scents of black raspberries, black cherries, chocolate, soil tones, smoke and a nice base of vanillin oak...deep, full-bodied and quite ripe, with a fine core of fruit, well-integrated tannins, fairly low acids and a long, creamy and quite suave finish. A lovely wine.

17.5Jancis Robinson

Mint and liquorice and violet cachous on the nose. Quite rich and broad and leathery on the palate. Serious stuff. Mellifluous.

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.