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Lafleur 2018
HED53666
75 cl
15%
£950.00
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Under the expert guidance of the Guinaudeau family, Château Lafleur has come to be recognised as one of greatest producers in Pomerol, offering wines of incredible balance, purity and elegance. Considered by some critics to be the "wine of the vintage", 2018 Lafleur was award a perfect 100-point score by James Suckling. Offered in wonderful half bottle format.
98 Jane Anson
Always a wine that requires time in bottle, and the 2018 is extremely closed down at three years old. Cabernet Franc dominates in expression, with layers of cool blueberry and blackcurrant fruits, needing a good 30 minutes in the glass to begin to open up and let out the raspberry leaf, peony floral notes. Packed in among the fine tannins are fennel, soy, smoked earth and slate, and this is a stunning Lafleur, from those carefully, thoughfully tended 4.5ha of vines. 25% new oak.Jane Anson5th October 2021
98 Jancis Robinson
Lafleur 2018 is deep garnet purple in color. It is a little broody to begin, giving way to notes of sauteed herbs, damp soil, and truffles, over a core of baked plums, blackberry preserves, and cedar, with a waft of olives. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is firm and grainy, quite muscular, locked up tight, with a long and earthy finish. It needs time! Lisa Perrotti-Brown9th February 2023
95 Vinous
The 2018 Lafleur is a great Pomerol, though it would take the bronze medal in a three-way race against the 2019 and 2020. Like many Bordeaux wines from this hot solar vintage, it has a powerful nose with precocious black fruit, black truffle and clove, veins of blueberry emerging with aeration, though it does not offer the aromatic precision of the Lafleurs on either side of it. The palate is noticeably sweet on the entry with more blue fruit notes than the 2019, commingling with tar and graphite from the Cabernet Franc. Grippy and assertive, this is a burly Lafleur at present. Though there is lovely juiciness on the finish, the 2019 and the 2020 unequivocally have more style. Tasted from ex-château magnum at Kate & Kon's 40-Year vertical in Austria. Neal Martin2nd September 2025
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Château Lafleur has come to be recognised as one of greatest producers in Pomerol, offering wines of incredible balance, purity and elegance, with distinct mineral character. A stand out name for Bordeaux's Right Bank, the estate also produces a second red, Les Pensées de Lafleur, produced from a 0.68ha plot with its own distinct terroir - resulting in a lighter, more fragrant style compared to the Lafleur.
Despite both wines being classic blends of Cabernet Franc and Merlot with 20% new oak, the result is two quite different expressions: for example the the dominance of cigar-box and graphite Cabernet Franc complexity in the Lafleur.