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2012 Château Lafleur, Pomerol, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Merlot
Ready - youthful
Product: 20128123998
2012 Château Lafleur, Pomerol, Bordeaux

Description

Ch. Lafleur has a brooding nose of violet, forest fruit and woodland notes. It is really intriguing, with power building up and up, followed by a precise mineral edge. One of the more concentrated palates of the vintage, it has layers of fruit but with the finesse and delicacy that is a hallmark for the year. Tannins add a touch of spice and fresh acidity cuts through the fruit, offering great finesse on the finish. This is one of the wines of the vintage and a stunning Lafleur.
Hong Kong Fine Wine Team
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2012
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Merlot
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Lafleur

About this wine

Merlot

The most widely planted grape in Bordeaux and a grape that has been on a relentless expansion drive throughout the world in the last decade. Merlot is adaptable to most soils and is relatively simple to cultivate. It is a vigorous naturally high yielding grape that requires savage pruning - over-cropped Merlot-based wines are dilute and bland. It is also vital to pick at optimum ripeness as Merlot can quickly lose its varietal characteristics if harvested overripe.
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Pomerol

Pomerol

With 150 or so producers and roughly 740 hectares of vineyards, the smallest of Bordeaux's major appellations is home to myriad bijou domaines – many making little more than 1,000 cases per annum. If the topography and architecture of Pomerol are typical, the style of its wines is anything but. The best vineyards are planted on a seam of rich clay extending across the raised plateau of Pomerol from the boundary of St Emilion.
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Chateau Lafleur

Château Lafleur is A tiny 4.5-hectare Pomerol property located opposite Pétrus and producing wines of comparable quality. Lafleur is owned and run by Sylvie and Jacques Guinadeau. Its vineyards are situated on the gravel-rich Pomerol plateau and adjoin those of La Fleur-Pétrus. The soils here are particularly deep and are enriched by deposits of potassium and iron. Only natural fertilisers are used and yields are painfully low, even by Pomerol standards.
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