2010 La Fleur de Bouard
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Bright, dark red. Musky black raspberry and bitter chocolate on the primary, slightly reduced nose. A supple, moderately ripe midweight, with berry, mineral and herbal flavors showing good but not outstanding depth. Finishes with a lightly green quality and good persistence.
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Jeannie Cho Lee MW
Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider
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The 2010 La Fleur du Bouard (80% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon) is bottled unfined and unfiltered and hit 14.5% natural alcohol. The wine offers up notes of black raspberry and blueberry pie intermixed with incense, lead pencil shavings and plenty of underlying floral notes. Some background oak is also present. The wine is medium to full-bodied, beautifully pure, voluptuously textured, rich, long and hedonistic and satisfying. Drink it over the next 10+ years. The other cuvee, a limited production wine, can be absolutely magnificent with some bottle age, as the 2000 is certainly proving to be. The standard of excellence for Lalande de Pomerol is Hubert de Bouard’s 50-acre property, over half of it located on the highly prized Neac plateau, which consists of clay, sand and gravel sub-soils.
Rich purple. Hint of compost on the nose. Then sweetness and some rather awkward chewiness on the palate. Very dry on the end. Stolid but not captivating. (JR)