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Chateau Clinet Pomerol 2016 - First Bottle

Reviews

99 Jeb Dunnuck - Read

Tasted on four separate occasions, the 2016 Chateau Clinet is another brilliant wine from this estate. Showing slightly more freshness and purity than the 2015, its saturated purple color is followed by a thrilling array of creme de cassis, graphite, ground herbs, and a terrific sense of minerality. Deep, full-bodied, with building tannins, and a magical sense of purity and elegance paired with real density and depth, it needs short term cellaring and will keep for three decades.

97 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - Read

The 2016 Clinet is composed of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon. It was aged using the Oxoline system, in 70% new and 30% one-year-old barrels for 16 months. It has a deep garnet-purple color with cedar and smoked meats on the nose giving way to black and red plums and earthy notions with wafts of cassis and pencil shavings. The palate is medium to full-bodied, elegant, polished and vivacious with loads of red and black fruit layers and an earthy finish. Around 4,416 cases produced.

96+ Vinous - Read

The 2016 Clinet, a blend of 88% Merlot and 12% Cabernet Sauvignon, was cropped at 49hl/ha and matured in 70% new oak. It has a quintessential Pomerol bouquet of vibrant floral aromas, black cherries and hints of Christmas cake and truffle. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin and very harmonious and refined. The sample at the château showed a touch more backbone than the one at the London UGC tastings, offering plenty of blackberry and black olive notes and then turning saline toward the dense, muscular finish. A classy, sophisticated Clinet that will reward those with the nous to cellar it for several years. Outstanding.

Technical Details

Blend90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon
CountryFrance
RegionBordeaux
AppellationPomerol
Alcohol14%

Chateau Clinet Pomerol 2016

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We tasted with Clinet here at our Napa offices a few months back and were pretty much speechless about both the ‘15 and ‘16. Clinet, like many Bordeaux producers these days, are reeling back the new oak use a bit and easing back into something a little more “traditional” with a focus on freshness, and (WOW!) these wines are utterly beguiling, sexy, pure and brilliant. Seriously, if you buy one Bordeaux or Pomerol wine from us this year, BUY THIS. Off the charts!!

Dating back to 1595, Clinet is notable for having a (relatively for Pomerol, anyway) large percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon planted, and it contributes to the wines overall sense of power and intensity. Located close to the church, Chateau Clinet has a special parcel of Merlot known as “La Grand Vigne,” that is their best terroir, and adds unique depth and complexity to the wine. This is also where you find their oldest vines, planted in 1934!

Really, profoundly, astonishingly fine Pomerol from a world-class vintage. Check out the rave reveiws below. Please do not miss, we have 60 bottles to sell! FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED…!

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About the Producer

Clinet is home to one of the oldest vineyards in the appellation, with traces of the vineyard's existence dating back to 1595. Ronan Laborde began to manage the Clinet estate in 2004, which has been in his family since 1999. He along with the rest of the Clinet 'family' has been engaged in substantial transformations: replanting, developing environmentally-friendly practices, rebuilding the winemaking facilities and reorganizing Clinet's distribution.