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    885
  • Producer ranking ?

    28
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    now to 2050
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Average 97.57 Tb
Red wine, Le Pin 2006
Le Pin 2006, Le Pin, Bordeaux,
France, Red wine
  • Users

    95p
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    95p
  • Fine

    96p
  • Users

    95p
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  • Fine

    96p

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The Story

Château Le Pin, or simply Le Pin, is an unclassed Bordeaux wine from the appellation Pomerol. There has never been an official classification of Pomerol. Even so, Chateau Le Pin commands prices that put it at levels equal to the best wines of Bordeaux. The unusually small estate is located on the Right Bank of France’s Gironde estuary, and its wine is periodically one of the world's most expensive red wines. Le Pin was the first of the "garage...

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The third flight began with an impressive 2006 Le Pin. ‘Baby, baby, baby’ was how my note started. This wine had a great nose, with clean and outstandingly pure, plummy fruit buttressed by minerals. The palate was beautifully crafted with long and fine tannins, and dry flavors of earth, mineral and tobacco. The 2006 was really refined and sexy juice.
  • 94p

Exotic, as it often can be, with super-ripe mulberry and black cherry fruit to the point of near-kirsch liqueur, with notes of licorice, truffle, and forest floor, this is a full-bodied, concentrated wine with a slight tannic bite to the finish. There is good freshness, depth, and power, and despite the flamboyant aromatics, this wine needs a good 3-5 years of cellaring and should keep for 15 or more years

  • 93p

Extremely seductive and silky wine all the way. Fabulous lusciousness and breed. A huge success for the vintage.

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