Critics Ratings

‘Really decadent and powerful, delivering dried fruit and grilled meat. Very Porty, featuring red licorice and prune on the nose. Velvety and rich, with a full palate and amazing fruit of aniseed and black licorice. It goes on and on. What freshness and beauty. Delicate fruit, chocolate and berries. This is just opening up now. '89/'99 Bordeaux blind retrospective.' - Wine Spectator, 98/100 (May 2010)

‘Very dark crimson. Very exotic and rich on the nose. Lots of minerality. Full and rich and bold and yet not too blurred – unlike some. Very tight and focused and utterly admirable. A powerhouse without being flabby, for hedonists. So long!. Very hot and early year.’ - Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com, 19/20 (Dec 2007)

‘Tasted at the Pomerol Comparative Exploration tasting in London, the 1989 Lafleur was perhaps the real surprise of a memorable evening of wine. What comes across on the nose is the detail, the precision with pure black fruit, crushed minerals, subtle florals scents and a palpable sense of energy. It evolves in the glass, later revealing smoke, Italian cured meats and a touch of bay leaf. The palate is simply crystalline with pitch perfect acidity, astonishing precision and laser-like focus that takes your breath away. I have never encountered a 1989 Lafleur with this detail and clarity, a wine that seems to improve every time I encounter it, which is regrettably once in a blue moon. Whilst I do not think the 1989 will surpass the 1982 Lafleur, it is coming damn close.’ - Neal Martin, Vinous, 97/100 (Feb 2018)

Provenance

Wine Cellar Private Client