2024 L'Eglise Clinet

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2027!
Delivery until Fall 2027!

Elegant, slow unrolling of black fruit flavours, beautiful precision, get a lot of fennel here, even a touch of marzipan, coffee grounds, savoury and juicy, black fruits, cassis and blueberry, violets, powdery rose petals. This is just exceptional within the vintage, such a deeply felt and deeply chiselled wine, and I can unhesitatingly recommend. No chaptilisation, 3.59ph, 85% new oak. Harvest September 21 to 28, 45hl/h yield, Noëmie Durantou winemaker and co-owner. Clearly will age with elegance and finesse. Red wine of the vintage for me.
97/100 Jane Anson

(Pomerol; 90% Merlot; 10% Cabernet Franc; aging in oak barrels, 85% of them new; 13.8% alcohol; tasted with Noëmie Durantou at L’Eglise Clinet). A brilliant achievement from Noëmie Durantou and Olivier Gautrat. If anyone was going to rise to the multiple challenges of this vintage it was going to be them. They have. Initially introvert and subtle. It demands calm respect, and you have to come to it. A little spiritual in a way. It’s refined and very beautiful, with a delicate and beguiling florality – incense (as in La Petite Eglise), but just a little more here, violets, rose petals and peony, all very fresh. Black cherries, blueberries, mulberries and black berries, again as if painted in pixilated detail. Graphite and cedar enrobe the fruit but also allow it the space it needs. There’s a slight hint of wild freshly picked herbs and even a touch of heather. Texturally sublime. Incredibly soft on the entry, but that softness comes as even more of a surprise because of the intensity, density and compactness of the mid-palate. Spherical at the core, with pixilating tannins that help one focus in on and pick out the details from the dense cylindrical core of the palate. As it opens, however, it’s as if one starts to pick out the velvet layers and that changes a little the impression of the form and structure of the wine, rendering it both more ample and accentuating the sense of depth and profundity. A wine that transcends the vintage. Unique and rather different in its identity than the other superstars of the Pomerol plateau; it’s actually more like Petrus than anything else (but the Cabernet Franc really speaks here too). Gracious and ethereal yet serious, intellectual and in great harmony with the vintage.
95-97/100+ Colin Hay; The Drinks Business

Deep garnet-purple colored. After a little shaking, notes of fresh red currants, black cherries, and boysenberries jump from the glass, giving way to touches of spearmint, lilac, and forest floor. The medium-bodied palate is tightly wound and superbly graceful with firm, fine-grained tannins and seamless freshness, finishing long and layered. Nicely done!
95-97/100+ Lisa Perrotti-Brown; The Wine Independent