2018 Chateau L'Eglise-Clinet, Pomerol, Case of 6 btls
Chateau L’Eglise-Clinet

2018 Chateau L'Eglise-Clinet, Pomerol, Case of 6 btls

France | Bordeaux | Red | Bordeaux Blend | 6x750mL
JD 99
JS 99
WA 98
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A blockbuster vintage from one of Pomerol's true benchmark estates. A Merlot dominant blend with a touch of Cabernet Franc, rich and concentrated with layers of dark fruit, earth and spice wrapped in fine, polished tannin. Already delicious, with decades of aging potential ahead.

L'Eglise Clinet is one of the great offerings from Pomerol, often mentioned in the same breath as icons like Pétrus and La Fleur, minus the sky-high price tag.

Robert Parker once dubbed it the "sleeper château of the century," and the estate's prime location on rich clay soils, home to some of Pomerol's oldest vines, continues to deliver vintage after vintage under Denis Durantou's guiding hand.

2018 was a standout year on the Right Bank, an opulent, flamboyant vintage born from the hottest, driest summer in fifty years, and L'Eglise Clinet is regularly cited as one of its blockbusters.

Crafted from a Merlot-dominant blend with a touch of Cabernet Franc and aged in a majority new French oak, the 2018 shows the estate's signature richness and precision: deep, concentrated fruit layered with earth, spice and floral notes, framed by fine, ripe tannin and real tension.

It's already showing beautifully, but this is a wine built for the long haul, with critics pointing to decades of upside still ahead.

Jeb Dunnuck | 99 Points

"One of the blockbusters in the vintage is Denis Durantou's 2018 Château L'Eglise Clinet, which is a normal blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc brought up in 70% new French oak. This deep purple-hued beauty boasts an awesome, full-bodied, opulent personality as well as classic Pomerol notes of blackcurrants, black cherries, damp earth, chocolate, tobacco, and flowers. Rich, concentrated, and sexy, yet not over the top in any way, it expands on the palate, has sweet tannins, background oak, and a great, great finish. It already offers pleasure yet won't hit prime time for another 7-8 years and is going to evolve for 25-30 years or more, and probably have a gradual decline after that."

James Suckling | 99 Points

"Incredible purity of fruit here with blackberry, black olive, concrete, stone and violet in the nose. It’s full-bodied with a powerful palate of fruit that shows a wet-earth and black-truffle undertone. The tannins are intense and chewy, yet wonderfully polished and poised. Superb length in the finish. One built for long cellaring. Try after 2027."

Wine Advocate | 98 Points

"Deep garnet-purple in color, it opens with a stunning fragrant-earth perfume, accented by notions of wild mushrooms, mossy tree bark and crushed rocks, giving way to a core of black raspberries, plum preserves and fresh blueberries, plus wafts of lavender and clove oil. Medium to full-bodied, the palate shimmers with energy, delivering slow-releasing black fruit and earthy layers, framed by very ripe, finely grained tannins and fantastic tension. It finishes with epic length and subtlety. It is already so evocative and beautifully expressed at this youthful stage that is tempting to broach straight away, but give it another 5-6 years to really fan its feathers, and drink it over the next 40 or more years."

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