Area under vines: 14,5 hectares
Soils: Coarse gravel
Average age of the vines: 35
Planting density: 6000 vines/ha
Production: 45 000 Bottles
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The 2010 La Fleur-Petrus is a striking wine that is beginning to show brilliantly today. Wafting from the glass with a deep bouquet of dark berry and cherry fruit mingled with black truffles, baking chocolate, loamy soil and subtle hints of cigar wrapper. Full-bodied, deep and concentrated, it’s rich and layered, with an elegantly muscular profile and a long, resonant finish. This is a dramatic, sensual and beautifully balanced wine that represents the essence of Pomerol.
Anticipated maturity: 2021-2041
Tasted blind. Deep garnet. Ripe, sweet mature notes of undergrowth, inviting in its mature aromas. Tannins are resolved and silky compared with many 2010s, more mature than some but decent balance overall. (JH)
Anticipated maturity: 2018-2028
Good bright red-ruby. Very fresh, highly scented nose combines cherry, raspberry, flowers, crushed stone, tobacco and underbrush; this could only be Pomerol. Fat, ripe and extremely deep but with uncanny precision and peppery lift to its vibrant flavors of cherry, raspberry, black tea and stony minerality. A Pomerol of great energy and refinement, finishing with firm tannic spine, terrific peppery lift and outstanding mineral reserve. Based on this wine’s tightly coiled quality and uncanny depth, I would expect it to merit an even higher score a decade from now, when it will probably also reveal more flesh and sweetness.
