Staff Notes:

*Pre-Arrival* - ETA January 2025

"Deep, dark ruby-garnet with an opaque core, purple highlights, and subtle rim variation. Intense, dark berry fruit underpinned with a very characteristic savouriness and underlain with fine herbal notes, rust, graphite, and blackberry. Complex, with delicate liquorice and ripe cherry fruit, then followed by taut, supporting tannins and salty minerality; suffused with power, enormous length, and great ageing potential; all elements are not yet fully integrated, but the prospects are terrific." 100 Falstaff Magazin

100 Jean-Marc Quarin

"Delivers the density and serious character of Lafleur, but while this is deep in colour it is not impenetrable, with more nuance than many, jewel ruby with vibrant reflections. Clear austerity to the tannins but this is a wine that always takes patience, and it provides a welcome sense of continuity in a vintage where the byword is excess. Confident, careful, precise, with red roses, peony, heather, slate, steel, graphite, incense, blueberry and raspberry fruit, and oyster shell salinity, layered and joyful, with cooling mint leaf on the finish. Jean-Baptiste Guinaudeau so often sets the conversation in a vintage, and he is doing so again here. Harvest September 3 to 17, 30% new oak. Potential 100." 98-100 Jane Anson

"Boysenberries, black raspberries, cherries, lilacs, violets, cocoa, and plum liqueur create the intoxicating perfume. Texturally, the wine meshes its viscosity, volume, density, opulence, and power with energy and lift. The levels of depth, and concentration here are are off the charts. The unctuous finish exceeds 60 seconds as it expands, builds, and coats your mouth, teeth and gums. It is important to note, that nothing is out of place, nothing is heavy. Everything is balanced and seamless. Like all great Lafleur vintages, this has almost unlimited aging abilities, yet the wine can be enjoyed after 5 years or so of bottle age. The wine blends 51% Cabernet Franc and 49% Merlot. 14.5% ABV, 3.8 pH. Harvesting took place from September 3 - September 17." 98-100 Jeff Leve, Wine Cellar Insider