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    323
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    18
  • Decanting time

    4h
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    from 2025
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Lafleur 2017 has been released and is being offered by merchants at £5,340 per 12×75, up 3.5% on the opening price of the 2016 vintage (£5,160).

Neal Martin was impressed by this year’s offering and awarded the wine 95-97 points. He noted that “this is an awesome 2017 from Baptiste Guinaudeau, one of the few that will oblige several years in the cellar”. Galloni, who scored the wine 95-98 points went further, adding that “the 2017 Lafleur i...

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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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Vintage 2017

Bordeaux 2017 - A year of contrast

Life is not fair and neither is nature. As the earth warms, flowering becomes earlier and the risk of frost damage increases. Few winemakers remember the frosts of 1991, but their legacy is still haunting. When meteorologists predicted a cold blast on the nights of April 27 and 28, there was a real sense of panic. Most with the means deployed, candles, wind turbines, helicopters, lit hay, took all the meas...

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Tasted in November 2021. 53% C.Franc and 47% Merlot. Creamy, deep, great tension, vibrant, incredible structure, complexity and midpalate. Wonderful all over. Awesome stuff!

  • 98p

7% Merlot, 53% Cabernet Franc (Bouschet, a right-bank selection).
Very dark. Darkly fragrant. Incredibly pure cassis nose and just a touch of graphite/mineral dustiness. Super-elegant fine tannins, more dark charm than Les Pensées. Paper-fine texture slides across the palate in delicate persistence. Layers of paper giving embryonic complexity. Gorgeous. Utterly refined. Incredibly long.

  • 95p

Ruby. Scented, blueberries, violets, nuanced, detailed, denser, tight but layered nose. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, structured, lots of fine tannins, intense, detailed and layered, nuanced, denser, ripe, long. Very long. 96-98

  • 97p

Lafleur’s 2017 Merlot came in just before the rain. Cellar Master Omri Ram commented, “The 2017 Merlot was very similar to the 2015. With the Cabernet Franc, we waited; we were patient, and it came in ripe yet more fresh than the Merlot.” As it turns out, that combo of the wonderfully decadent Merlot and the galvanizing Cabernet Franc are just magic! Blended of 47% Merlot and 53% Cabernet Franc, the 2017 Lafleur has a medium to deep garnet-purple color and opens with a positively electric intensity of red and black fruits—cherries, black plums, red currants, black raspberries and mulberries—with touches of roses, cinnamon stick, smoked meats and forest floor plus a hint of truffles. Medium to full-bodied with densely packed layers of red and black fruits accented by floral and earthy sparks, it possesses very firm, very finely pixelated tannins and a lively backbone, finishing with epic persistence. 97-100p

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Pomerol, Bordeaux
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