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2019 Château Clinet, Pomerol, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Merlot (80%), Cabernet Sauvignon (20%)
Not ready
Product: 20198010595
2019 Château Clinet, Pomerol, Bordeaux

Description

This is a top-notch Clinet. The efforts everywhere in the vines and the cellar over the past decade have been rewarded with a very fine wine that also manages to emphatically express its terroir. The colour is intense and not at all sombre, and that levity extends to the wine's aromas that combine gravel and spice with fresh blueberry. The palate is compact and serious, then lifted by a waft of creamy succulence. In the fine, long finish, the iron of Pomerol reasserts itself. Owner Ronan Laborde believes it’s one of the château’s best ever vintages. Drink 2026-2040. Blend: 80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon
Mark Pardoe MW, Wine Director
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2019
Maturity Not ready
Grape List Merlot (80%), Cabernet Sauvignon (20%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Clinet

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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Château Clinet

Château Clinet is a wine estate in Pomerol on the Right Bank of Bordeaux. It is owned and run by Ronan Laborde and his partner, Monique Bailly. Ronan took the helm here in 2004.
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