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CHÂTEAU CLINET

2014 Pomerol

Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Sub-district Pomerol & Lalande de Pomerol
Village Pomerol
ABV 13.5%

At the outset, this is big and powerful, but there is enticing soft fruit at the core. Good acidity and a nice gentle crunch of tannin lift things. Good if not completely breath-taking. 90% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Sauvignon, 1% Cabernet Franc. Rating: 90 L&S (Mar 2015)


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First year in new cellar, and this is a gorgeous wine that feels sculpted, concentrated but balanced, with a luscious black cherry and damson character to the fruit, plenty of chalky tannins, with waves of sappy orange peel and pomegrate. Appealing texture, you can just about begin to drink this now because there is so much freshness, but it will keep improving as the architecture relaxes further to show that Pomerol generosity. 60% new oak, Ronan Laborde owner. Drinking range: 2024 - 2040 Rating: 93 Jane Anson, Decanter (May 2023)

The 2014 Clinet is a wine that left me "perplexed" when I tasted it multiple times both from barrel and in bottle. The litmus test is how it shows blind... Here it has a lifted bouquet with truffle and smoke-infused red fruit, a subtle hickory note coming through with aeration. One or two attendees at the tasting suggested brettanomyces. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly chewy tannin, spicy in the mouth with a dash of white pepper towards the firm, quite masculine and angular finish. Two bottles tasted with consistent notes. Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting. Drinking range: 2020 - 2034 Rating: 90 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Mar 2018)

The 2014 Clinet is powerful, deep and enveloping. Black cherry, smoke, graphite, chocolate and French oak give the wine its intensity and gravitas. Hints of lavender and violet develop in the glass, adding lovely aromatic nuance, but the 2014 remains a big, imposing wine in need of cellaring. This is impressive juice. Drinking range: 2022 - 2039 Rating: 94+ Antonio Galloni, www.vinous.com (Feb 2017)

Château Clinet

Château Clinet lies at the heart of Pomerol on a bed of Günz gravel. Now owned by Jean-Louis Laborde who, in 2003, appointed his 23 year old son as Estate Managing Director. Improvements implemented by the previous owners, the Audy family, have been strengthened by the Labordes and they continue to employ the services of Michel Rolland. Only 9ha of vineyard, planted with 85% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Cabernet Franc, with vines at 40 years old. Grapes are hand-harvested, and the wines aged in 60% new wood barriques, with the balanced being just one year old.

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