2024 Les Pensées
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After Les Perrières, Les Pensées seems hedonistic, heady with its plummy fruit, sweeter potpourri scent and sweet spice. The palate is lush, managing to combine density and transparency, with mouthwatering freshness as the fruit washes over the palate and fine tannins. The finish is long, earthy and saline. Blend: 64% Merlot, 36% Bouchet (Cabernet Franc)
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Yohan Castaing, Wine Advocate
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
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The 2024 Pensées De Lafleur sports a deep ruby/purple hue as well as a gorgeous nose of ripe black raspberries, damp earth, graphite, and tobacco, with a gorgeous floral character coming through with air. Medium-bodied, very pretty, and elegant, with an almost chalky minerality, it has fine tannins, nicely integrated acidity, and outstanding length. It's another pure, elegant, seamless wine from this brilliant team.
Solid and very precise, showing wonderfully integrated tannins with drive and focus. Polished and extremely poised. Medium-bodied, this has creamy texture and a long, vibrant finish. Reminds me of the superb 1995. A blend of 64% merlot and 36% bouchet (cabernet franc).
Solid and very precise, showing wonderfully integrated tannins with drive and focus. Polished and extremely poised. Medium-bodied, this has creamy texture and a long, vibrant finish. Reminds me of the superb 1995. A blend of 64% merlot and 36% bouchet (cabernet franc).
About the producer
The Société Civile du Ch. Lafleur is the collective name for the Guinaudeau family’s wines and estates. These are some of the Right Bank’s most famous wines, including Ch. Lafleur and Les Pensées in Pomerol, along with Les Perrières, Les Champs Libres and Ch. Grand Village in Fronsac.