2017, Château La Fleur-Pétrus, POMEROLBordeaux Blend: Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot. The 2017 Lafleur Petrus is elegant, polished and wonderfully refined from start to finish. Everything just falls into place effortlessly. Aromatic, sculpted fruit gives the 2017 its sense of regal beauty and total finesse. Beautifully lifted and precise, it is framed by gentle, silky tannins. Small red berries, mint, blood orange, spice and liquorice develop in the glass, but it is the wine's

ripe tannins building steadily in the mouth leading to a big

freshly rolled tobacco and smoke billowing from the glass

A popular 3rd growth of 90 hectares

The flavours need coaxing a little

blackcurrant and black cherry with floral touches

The 2021 La Vieille Cure has an open

A deep warm colour

the sauvage and a whiff of smoke

Quite strict for a Palmer

brooding nose

the palate is tightly wound with tons of black fruit layers

Power but purity