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L'Eglise Clinet 1975 75cl

AOC | Pomerol | Bordeaux | France
CHF 259.45
Critics scores
18 Rene Gabriel
98: Mittleres Granat, grosser Wasserrand. Süsses, nach Honig und Kamille duftendes Bouquet, noch rotbeerige Frucht dahinter. Satter Gaumen, schöne Konzentration und auch noch gut stützende Gerbstoffe, pfeffrige Säure, zeigt viel Charakter und Kraft (eine Stunde dekantieren). (17/20). 11: Intaktes Rot mit viel Ziegelbraun am Rand. Offenes, kräutriges Bouquet, Heunoten, Rosinen von überreifem Traubengut, Honigspuren, Spuren von Polyester. Im Gaumen schön füllig, helle Malznoten, überraschend gut. Grossartiger 75er, nachdem man eigentlich noch suchen sollte. Ist aber eher schon rar genug.
18 Rene Gabriel
98: Mittleres Granat, grosser Wasserrand. Süsses, nach Honig und Kamille duftendes Bouquet, noch rotbeerige Frucht dahinter. Satter Gaumen, schöne Konzentration und auch noch gut stützende Gerbstoffe, pfeffrige Säure, zeigt viel Charakter und Kraft (eine Stunde dekantieren). (17/20). 11: Intaktes Rot mit viel Ziegelbraun am Rand. Offenes, kräutriges Bouquet, Heunoten, Rosinen von überreifem Traubengut, Honigspuren, Spuren von Polyester. Im Gaumen schön füllig, helle Malznoten, überraschend gut. Grossartiger 75er, nachdem man eigentlich noch suchen sollte. Ist aber eher schon rar genug.
92 Robert Parker
The most surprising wine in the Rodenstock tasting was the 1975 L'Eglise-Clinet. I have always admired this estate and have given some vintages extremely high marks (1985, 1989, 1990), but I had no familiarity with ancient vintages. The surprise of the week-end was the extraordinary quality of L'Eglise-Clinet. The 1975 was nearly as concentrated as L'Evangile and La Mission-Haut-Brion, as well as extremely youthful with a thick, dark ruby/purple color with no signs of age. Sweet and expansive, with jammy fruit, huge body, and tannin, this approachable but youthful wine should evolve effortlessly for another 25-30+ years. I wonder if all the stocks of old vintages of L'Eglise-Clinet are squirreled away in private cellars in Belgium?
92 Robert Parker
The most surprising wine in the Rodenstock tasting was the 1975 L'Eglise-Clinet. I have always admired this estate and have given some vintages extremely high marks (1985, 1989, 1990), but I had no familiarity with ancient vintages. The surprise of the week-end was the extraordinary quality of L'Eglise-Clinet. The 1975 was nearly as concentrated as L'Evangile and La Mission-Haut-Brion, as well as extremely youthful with a thick, dark ruby/purple color with no signs of age. Sweet and expansive, with jammy fruit, huge body, and tannin, this approachable but youthful wine should evolve effortlessly for another 25-30+ years. I wonder if all the stocks of old vintages of L'Eglise-Clinet are squirreled away in private cellars in Belgium?
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Château L'Eglise Clinet

Amongst the top echelons of Pomerol, Château L'Eglise-Clinet is quite a small Bordeaux estate with a holding of just 5.5-hectares of Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Located on Pomerol’s famed plateau, the terroir of gravelly clay soils builds L'Eglise-Clinet’s signature style of concentrated and aromatic complex wines. Vintage after vintage the quality of L’Eglise-Clinet continues to improve. The Grand Vin, L’Eglise-Clinet is a magnificent structured, dense classically proportioned example of the appellation. The château also produces Le Petite L’Eglise, which is not thought of as a second wine by Durantou, it is an expression his vineyards that sit on the sandy gravelly soil plots. Montlandrie comes from the limestone and clay terroir of his Côtes de Castillon vineyard, it is a Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon blend.