Pensées de Lafleur - Pomerol 2020 (750ml)
Price: $350.00
Sale Price: $189.00
| Producer | Pensées de Lafleur |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pomerol |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Size | 750ml |
James Suckling: 96 Points
Aromas of earth spice and crushed stone with chocolate. Blood and iron. Black truffle. Medium to full body. Very primary fruit with a tightness and focus. Juicy and flavorful. Give it four to five years. Better after 2026.
Wine Independent Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW: 96 Points
A blend of 71% Merlot and 29% Cabernet Franc, the 2020 Pensees de Lafleur comes from the clay plots in the Lafleur vineyard. Deep purple-black in color, it is a little subdued to start, requiring a good shake to wake up notes of licorice, chargrill, fertile loam, and dark chocolate, giving way to a core of baked plums, boysenberry preserves, and cast-iron pan. The palate is full-bodied and densely packed with layer upon layer of black and blue fruit accented by earthy and mineral nuances. It is framed with exquisitely ripe tannins and lovely freshness to restrain the opulent fruit, and finishes on a lingering ferrous note.
Vinous: 95 Points
The 2020 Pensées de Lafleur is another impressive Pomerol, albeit more closed and introspective than the Trotanoy. It opens with aeration to reveal black fruit, marmalade and irony scents. The palate is medium-bodied with a rounded texture that is quite plum and concentrated. The acidity maintains tension right toward the finish, fanning out in an almost decadent fashion. This is a very seductive and stupendous Deuxième Vin (even though it's not really a Deuxième Vin). Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting.
Wine Advocate: 95 Points
The 2020 Pensées de Lafleur unwinds in the glass with deep aromas of cherries raspberries crushed mint and black truffle. Full-bodied layered and velvety with a broad and enveloping attack that segues into a deep and rather taut mid-palate it concludes with a long penetrating finish. As usual this isn't a second wine per se: it derives from vines growing in the part of Lafleur's vineyard through which a watercourse once flowed and where the soils are richer in clay and better hydrated and the Guinadeau family like to refer to it as more stereotypically Pomerolais than Lafleur itself. The 2020's tension and structure however mark it out as the most Lafleur-like Pensées of recent years.
