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  • Country ranking ?

    60
  • Producer ranking ?

    2
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    now to 2030
  • Food Pairing

    Pork Ribs with Maize Stew

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1982 versus 1990 Bordeaux

When you receive an invitation to a comparative tasting of all Premier Crus from the two great vintages of 1982 and 1990, you drop everything and clear your diary. 1982 and 1990 represent the beginning and end of perhaps the greatest era in the history of Bordeaux. During these nine years there were only two vintages that could be seen as disappointments: 1984 and 1987. It could rightly be stated that the period fr...

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The Story

Between the estates of Pétrus and La Fleur-Pétrus, amid vineyards, stands a stone house with closed shutters. The road that winds to the house between the vine rows has no signs or indications as to the name of the place. The construction looks more like a maintenance shed for the neighbouring estates than the main building of a winery. However, this is a house that makes one of the most desirable wines in Bordeaux: Château Lafleur.

Lafleur...

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Wine Information

Lafleur is a single-vineyard wine with exceptional terroir qualities. Firstly, it is located on a very gentle amphitheatrical slope to the north of Pétrus. The soil is clearly more gravelly and brown than the red clay at Pétrus. A comprehensive soil analysis in 1998 found that the estate comprises as many as five different types: the northwest has brown gravel, the south is more clay-based and sandy gravel, and the east has sandy clay with so...

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Vintage 1982

The 1982 vintage in Bordeaux changed the wine world as well as changed my life. It was the first vintage I tasted from barrel as a young wine writer working for the American magazine The Wine Spectator, and I was amazed how gorgeous the quality of a young red could be from barrel.

I remember the first barrel samples I tasted during the summer of 1983 at Chateau Prieure-Lichine with the late wine author and vintner Alexis Lichine. The wines ...

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Average Bottle Price

2023 2020 2017 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2005
5 090€ +19.2% 4 270€ +9.8% 3 890€ +18.2% 3 290€ +31.1% 2 510€ +0.8% 2 490€ +4.5% 2 383€ -17.8% 2 899€ +20.3% 2 409€ +53.8% 1 566€

This data comes from the FINE Auction Index, a composite of average prices for wines sold at commercial auctions in 20 countries. The average prices from each year have been collected since 1990. This chart plots the index value of the average price of the wines.

Tasting note

color

Medium

ending

Long, Smooth and Lingering

flavors

Voluptuous, Truffles and Blackberry

nose

Intense and Complex

recommend

Yes

taste

Balanced, Concentrated, Well-structured, Full-bodied, Ripe, Fresh, Sweet and Silky tannins

Written Notes

This was the 1982 Lafleur I had been looking for my whole life!  Many adore this wine, but frankly most experiences with it have been disappointing for me.  I’m not going to get into the whole 1982 vintage thing, nor the ’82 Right versus Left Bank thing either, because this Lafleur changed the narrative.  Another ‘perfect bottle’ made its way into my notes, along with so rich and so decadent.  This was a purple, plummy extravaganza, dripping with fruit and exuding class (98M).

  • 98p

a, und dann kam der helle Wahnsinn ins Glas. Diesen unglaublichen 1982 Lafleur habe ich zwischen 1988 und 2012 gut 10mal als gewaltigen Brocken und Potentialmonster im Glas gehabt. Jetzt hier aus dieser Magnum zeigte er sich trotz aller Jugend, die er immer noch verströmte, erstmals in voller Pracht und absolut perfekt. Tief dunkle Farbe ohne jeden Alterston, satte, rote und dunkle Frucht, Lakritz, Kräuter, Minze Leder, Trüffel – der Lafleur explodierte förmlich im Glas und zeigte immer neue Facetten. Präziser Hedonismus, geht das? Klar, hier ging das, hedonistische und geradezu dekadente Süße und Fülle mit sehr präzisen Konturen und gewaltigem Druck und Länge. So sehr ich ja meine Mitstreiter am Tisch mochte, diese Magnum hätte ich auch alleine aussaufen können. Klare WT100.

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A smooth, superripe wine, full of the sweetest fruit, big and rich. It is opulent, a powerhouse of dense Merlot fruits, rounded out with soft tannins.

  • 98p

This is one of my favorite vintages of Lafleur and I am lucky to enjoy it quite regularly with friends. Exuberant and glorious, very different from the shy young Lafleur vintages during the first few decades of its life, this complex, intriguing red has so much to offer and express! Dried blakcberries, cocoa, savory, roasted herbs and spices are wrapped around plush, generous tannins. The finish is incredibly long.

  • 98p

Château Lafleur 1982 / 101 Points / This remains one of the great wines of the 20th century! Stunning in every sense and meaning of the word. The floral, truffle, cherry, black and red plum, spicy perfume is off the hook. The intensity of flavor, concentration, richness and length is worth an easy 101 Pts!

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Tasted in September 2012. Oh my God what a wine! Heavenly stuff. Extremely dark and dense. Wild and incredibly intense nose with "tons" of mocha, bitter chocolate, extremely powerful on the palate with kirsch liqueur, extremely concentrated with extraordinary length. Perfect balance. So thick texture in this wine, that you could cut it in slices. Christian Moueix and Jean-Claude Berrouet from close neighbor Petrus made this wine and it shows, for 100% typical Lafleur this wine isn't. But who really cares, as this wine was, is and will be a legend for many years to come!
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Origin

Pomerol, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Outstanding

Value For Money

Good

Investment potential

Very Good

Fake factory

There is a possibility

Glass time

2h

Inside Information

Wine Advocate #183
Jun 2009
Robert M. Parker, Jr. 100 Drink: 2009 - 2030 $3242-$3694
The 1982 Lafleur, at least for my palate, while qualitatively no better than Mouton Rothschild, Latour, and La Mission Haut Brion, is off the charts in terms of the hedonistic and intellectual pleasure it gives me. I have only a few bottles remaining in my cellar, and this 1982 is still a young wine. The extraordinary intensity and purity of the kirsch liqueur and licorice, the remarkable opulence, the thickness and richness, yet the ability to seem fresh with laser-like precision are all things that must be tasted to be believed. This wine is showing a little bricking at the edge, but has off the chart concentration as well as a viscous texture and unreal purity and fruit. It is as close to some of the legendary 1947s that were produced in Pomerol as anything made in the last thirty years. This is a remarkable wine! Anticipated maturity: now-2030. Release price: ($325.00/case)

 

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