Chateau Lafleur 2020

Name: Chateau Lafleur
Brand: Lafleur
SKU: 63866H
Price: 1990 EUR
Availability: OutOfStock

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2: Cabernet Franc, Merlot

5: rot, trocken; 15,0% Vol.; Trinkreife: 2035–2080; Verpackt in: 1er OHK

9: pikant & würzig; saftig; seidig & aromatisch

3: Lobenberg: 100/100; Suckling: 100/100; Parker: 99/100; Galloni: 98+/100; Jeb Dunnuck: 98+/100; Decanter: 98/100; Jane Anson: 98/100

6: Frankreich, Bordeaux, Pomerol

7: Allergene: Sulfite

Suckling über: Chateau Lafleur

-- Suckling: This red shows such beautiful and ripe aromas of blackberries, orange peel, hazelnuts, and tropical fruits. It's full-bodied, with superb texture of polished tannins that are velvety. The length last for minutes. It's muscular yet elegant. It flexes it muscle yet pulls them back. What gorgeous tone to this young red. Try in 2020. 100/100

Parker über: Chateau Lafleur

-- Parker: One of the wines of the vintage, but likely to prove slower evolving and more introverted than its 2019 counterpart, the 2020 Lafleur unwinds in the glass with aromas of cherries, raspberries, kirsch, black truffle, orange zest and vine smoke. Full-bodied, layered and multidimensional, it's deep and concentrated, with a tightly wound core of fruit framed by rich, powdery tannins, concluding with a long, saline finish. This is another magical bottle from an estate that just seems to do everything right. 99/100

Galloni über: Chateau Lafleur

-- Galloni: The 2020 Lafleur takes all the elements of this site and dials them up. All of the natural richness and textural intensity of the year comes through in a decidedly flamboyant, opulent Lafleur. It's an immediate Lafleur, that much is obvious. I imagine the classic Lafleur bouquet will develop in bottle, as aeration starts to release some of the classic Bouchet (Cabernet Franc) notes that are such signatures. Today, the sumptuousness of Merlot really drives the wines' balance, with the Bouchet felt mostly in the structural profile. I can't wait to see how this ages. 98+/100

Jeb Dunnuck über: Chateau Lafleur

-- Jeb Dunnuck: Looking at the flagship 2020 Château Lafleur, it’s based on 54% Merlot and 46% Bouchets (Cabernet Franc) that spent 15 months in just 25% new French oak. This brilliant Pomerol reveals a saturated ruby/purple hue as well as a dense, primordial bouquet of red and black fruits, tobacco leaf, iodine, flowers, and crushed stone-like minerality. A powerful, full-bodied, concentrated Lafleur built for the long haul, it has beautiful overall balance, lots of ripe tannins, and the vintage's focused, pure, structured style front and center. It needs to be forgotten for a solid decade and will evolve for 40 years or more. 98+/100

Decanter über: Chateau Lafleur

-- Decanter: I was, to be honest, a little unsure of how the gravels here would react to the dry summer but the first hit of graphite and smoky berry fruit makes it clear Lafleur has taken the vintage in its stride. This is an excellent wine, barely showing its potential right now - it's a big year, with knitted-down tannins, serious and powerful, not austere so much as layered, complex and full of hidden energy. The floral aromatics curl up after 10 minutes in the glass, as does bitter chocolate and crushed mint. 98/100

Jane Anson über: Chateau Lafleur

-- Jane Anson: The 2020 vintage was less of a shock perhaps for Lafleur than many other estates - they travel less than many estates, and already spend much of their time in the vines. Stunning texture, knitted down but rippling with silk and velvet, opening up to show violet, cherry, mandarin, cocoa bean, black truffle, mint, stretches out langoriously, with pulses of electricity and points of energy, tension and sinewy tannins. Showcases an oyster shell salinity that don't usually associate with a solar vintage. They do such a great job here of illuminating individual flavours, of bringing definition to the overall palate, and this is a superb Lafleur. Hard to fault. Winemaker Baptiste Guineaudeau. 98/100

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Chateau Lafleur

Das legendäre Chateau Lafleur besitzt nur 4,5 Hektar Rebflächen, diese allerdings auf tiefem Kiesgrund, der mit Eisen und Sand durchzogen ist. Der Rebbestand ist sehr alt, weil Lafleur beim Frost von 1956 verschont blieb und nicht komplett neu bepflanzt werden musste.

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