Pomerol & Lalande de Pomerol
The noblest of noble villages and the very heart of the Haut-Médoc. Pauillac is home to Lafite-Rothschild, Mouton-Rothschild and Latour amongst a stellar array of neighbours. Classic, Cabernet Sauvignon dominated clarets.
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2018 CHÂTEAU LA PERVENCHE Lalande de Pomerol
Bordeaux France 13.5% Red
Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot.
Chateau La Pervenche is arguably a more romantic name than the translation into English - it is hard to know how seriously people would take Chateau Blue Periwinkle - but this is a super Bordeaux bargain. Although quite...(read more)
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2016 CHÂTEAU PERRON Lalande de Pomerol
Right Bank Bordeaux France 13% Red
Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot.
The wines from this property are always sleek and supple and the 2016 is no different. But what the 2016 vintage has is just more of everything, deeper fruit profile, richer tannic structure, riper balancing acidity. The...(read more)
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2015 L'ÉTOILE Lalande de Pomerol
Bordeaux France 13.5% Red
Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot.
This new addition is a fabulously suave claret. L'Etoile is a collaboration from 2 sides of the distinguished Thienpont family. Guillaume from Vieux Chateau Certan and his uncle Francois have identified a single plot of...(read more)
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2008 CHÂTEAU LA FLEUR DE GAY Pomerol
Bordeaux France 13% Red
Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot.
This could turn out to be the finest La Fleur de Gay since the incredible duo of 1989 and 1990. Made from 35-year-old Merlot vines planted on the plateau of Pomerol, sandwiched between the renowned Lafleur and Le Gay, th...(read more)
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2004 CHÂTEAU LA CONSEILLANTE Pomerol
Bordeaux France 13.5% Red
Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot.
Interesting much more purple and brighter colour than nearly all the other Pomerols this year, though not massively deep (ie just not opaquely black at the centre). Nose restrained but high-toned red fruit. Warm and ripe...(read more)
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2004 CHÂTEAU L'ÉGLISE CLINET Pomerol
Bordeaux France 13% Red
Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot.
Denis Durantou was keen to say that this is not just a classic vintage, but a return to ‘normal’ after several vintages of extremes - the yield is close to a long term average - and this is again a vintage of blending -...(read more)
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