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  • Country ranking ?

    433
  • Producer ranking ?

    6
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    from 2020
  • Food Pairing

    Roast leg of lamb

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A blend of 92% Merlot, 7.5% Cabernet Franc and 0.5% Petit Verdot, the 2015 la Fleur-Petrus is a little reticent on the nose to begin, offering up beguiling notes of tilled soil, black olives, charcuterie and dried Provence herbs over a core of preserved plums, black cherries and black raspberries with touches of tar and new leather. Full-bodied, rich, plush and seductive in the mouth, it finishes with persistent, slowly revealing earthy/savory...

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The Story

This great château is located on the plateau of Pomerol next to its famous neighbours Château LAFLEUR and Château PETRUS. It was acquired by Ets. Jean- Pierre MOUEIX in 1953.
Today the estate is composed 90% of Merlot with an average vine age of 30 years and 10% of Cabernet Franc with an average vine age of 50 years.  Christian Moueix' obsessive work in the vineyard focuses on sap flow and the treatment of each vine individually.  In the cell...

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Wine Information

The 2015 vintage brings together the 3 plots of LFP, all situated within 1,500 feet of each other, at the highest elevation of Pomerol alongside the other top properties of the appellation.  LFP 1, the original block, is made up of large gravelly soil with an iron-rich underlayer, drained by its northerly slope.  The great elegance of the wine is what made LFP’s quality reputation, and gave it the distinction as Pomerol’s seductress, if you wi...

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Vintage 2015

Full report of Bordeaux 2015 by Andrew Caillard MW “Next in line in a great series of vintages; 2000, 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2015.

 

2015 is a wonderful Bordeaux vintage without the hype or hysteria associated with 2009 and 2010. The wines are generally expressive and generous with wonderful concentration and structure. Given another year in barrel, the wines should gain more complexity and fruit volume. Châteaux, in all sub-regions, are e...

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Written Notes

Tasted in October 2018.  More refined and sophisticated wine here than Latour-a-Pomerol and Hosanna, more intense and with bigger depth. Silky and velvety. Simply excellent.

  • 96p
Rich, intensive fruit, in a mix of both dark and red, and Elegant with very smooth and silky tannin like a Hermes scarf slipping through your hand. Really sweet and feminine, delicate and complex. Very long finish of sweet red plum and cherry. This is my favourite from JP Moueix. 95-96
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Dark purple red with violet hue and almost black core. Initially quite closed, opens up well displaying pure fruit aroma, dark berries, hints of toasted oak and mild spices in the background. On the palate well structured with velvety tannins, sweet fruit and a spicy aftertaste. A great example for elegance and persistence.
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Medium deep colour. Redcurrant plum floral star anise aromas. Supple sweet fruited wine with dense red currant plummy fruit, fresh sinuous fine tannins, savoury oak notes. Lovely persistence. Aniseed kick at the finish. Still elemental but will develop very well. 96 points
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Ruby. Dark fruits, some exotic notes, scented, red berries, nuanced, deeper, layered nose. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, juicy, fruity, ripe, elegant yet structured, firm yet open, detailed, long. 95-97
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Origin

Pomerol, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Extraordinary

Value For Money

Very good

Investment potential

Below Average

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None
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