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Wine Description
The Story
Between the estates of Pétrus and La Fleur-Pétrus, amid vineyards, stands a stone house with closed shutters. The road that winds to the house between the vine rows has no signs or indications as to the name of the place. The construction looks more like a maintenance shed for the neighbouring estates than the main building of a winery. However, this is a house that makes one of the most desirable wines in Bordeaux: Château Lafleur.
Lafleur’s wines form an interesting contrast to their neighbour, Pétrus. Their terroirs differ significantly, even though the distance between them is only 50–100 metres. Whereas Pétrus is more seductively rich, full-bodied and intense, Lafleur is charming in its elegance, femininity and subtlety.
Lafleur’s wines are delightful, but they do require aging for at least twenty years in order to display their full, nuanced character. Guinaudeau’s investments into improving quality in all of Lafleur’s functions promise an even better future for the friends of Lafleur. Although tasting the 1947, 1950, 1961, 1975 or 1982, one can only wonder whether Lafleur’s wines could get any better?
Wine Information
1955 Château Lafleur (Pomerol)
For many people Lafleur is the only wine in Pomerol that has both the excellence and capability of Château Petrus. There are only four and a half hectares of vines, planted in 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc, which are an average of 35 years of age.
Good appearance, château-bottled and the level was high-shoulder. Very dark and exciting colour. Complex, delicate nose. Full, round, and clean fruit on the palate. Lots of depth and elegance here, but somehow did not have the delicate richness and weight of the Petrus 1955. Otherwise a first-rate and exotic wine.
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Vintage 1955
A Bordeaux, l’année 1955 a commencé avec des conditions météorologiques instables juste avant l’été, mais s’est transformée en une saison extrêmement favorable à la fin de l’année. Une période magnifique, ensoleillée et chaude, sinon chaude, a prévalu tout au long des mois d’août et de septembre, jusqu’à ce que la bonne quantité de pluie indispensable arrive. La récolte s’est avérée être de la plus haute qualité. Cependant, parce que le millésime a été éclipsé par le 1953, il offre des vins avec un bon rapport qualité-prix qui peuvent encore être appréciés aujourd’hui. Les raisins mûrs et les pluies d’automne ont garanti une excellente année pour les vins de Sauternes. Les vins de ce millésime varient considérablement en qualité, et beaucoup sont dominés par les tanins. Seuls les meilleurs vins, comme le Lafleur, le Cheval Blanc et le Mouton-Rothschild, offrent équilibre et richesse.