Wine Spectator Score: 100

Robert Parker Score: 95

Tanzer Score: 95

Other Scores: 96

Region: Bordeaux

District: Pomerol

Type: Still Wine

Color: Red

Vintage: 2008

Futures Item: Yes

Available: 6

Brand: See more from Chateau La Fleur Morange

Sku: 105890

Price: $2,059.99

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Wine Spectator Review:
Exhibits a complex nose of crushed blackberry, dried flowers and dark chocolate. Fullbodied, with a rich, powerful palate. Tannic and muscular, with great length. Superracy. Builds and goes and goes. So fine and beautiful. Mythic.

Parker Review:
The 2005 Lafleur is tight and austere at present, but unquestionably enormously endowed. It displays a dense ruby/purple hue as well as a beautiful bouquet that only emerges with coaxing. Aeration is essential in order to release the subtle, restrained scents of licorice, kirsch liqueur, black truffles, and flowers. In the mouth, there is compelling richness, depth, and intensity, but the wines power, full body, forbiddingly backward style, and high tannins suggest significant cellaring will be required. Anticipated maturity 2020 to 2050.

Tanzer Review:
Saturated, bright rubyred. Brooding, liqueurlike aromas of blackberry, cassis, smoked meat, licorice and menthol. Compellingly dense, sweet and concentrated, with silky fruit that saturates the entire palate without any excess weight. A very backward, firmly structured wine that offers an uncanny combination of early sweetness and firm but harmonious acidity. The wines dark fruit and licorice flavors spread out impressively on the back end, which features huge but smooth tannins and terrific length and verve. Wow! This will be long lived.

Other Notes:
It has a much understated nose at first and takes time to build in the glass. Very complex dark berried fruits, dark plum, crushed pebbles, a touch of cedar, very taut and linear. The palate is medium-bodied with firm tannins, great purity here but the structure grips the mouth more than any other Pomerol. Dark berried fruit, a cedar, liquorices, immense mineralite but it is very tightly contained. Real weight and density towards the finish with great persistency. Excellent, but certainly a masculine a Pomerol for those with patience. 96 points, Neal Martin