2010 Château La Fleur-Pétrus
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The 2010 Château La Fleur-Petrus is based on 96.5% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc, and a splash of Petit Verdot. It has a perfumed nose of sweet red and black fruits as well as menthol, flowers, chalky minerality, and loamy earth. This gives way to a medium to full-bodied, concentrated, flawlessly balanced Pomerol that has a juicy, lively mouthfeel, ripe, integrated tannins, and a great finish. It's incredibly complex and, given its balance and purity, is a dream to drink today. However, I see no reason it shouldn't continue to evolve for another two decades if well stored. Drink 2025-2045.
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Jeannie Cho Lee MW
Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider
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A clear step up for me from the 2009 vintage, here the entire architecture and tension through the wine is well crafted, confidently held together, with layers of cocoa bean, cassis, crayon, graphite, juicy blackberry fruit, poised and crafted.
An unmistakeable Pomerol swagger greets you right on the first nose, and this is a delicious wine packed with black fruits, graphite, baking spice, plum, pomegranate and curls of bitter black chocolate. You can drink this with a good carafe first, but no rush at all. 50% new oak. More proof that, when it comes to this much-loved appellation, the Moueix family barely put a foot wrong.
The 2010 La Fleur-Pétrus 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.
About the producer
Château La Fleur-Pétrus was the first acquisition of many in Pomerol by Jean Pierre Moueix, who went on to own Château Trotanoy, Château Hosanna and most notably Pétrus. Jean Pierre Moueix was born in Corèzze in moved to Saint-Émilion with his parent in 1929 following the Great Depression.