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100 -James Suckling -

This is amazingly perfumed with amazing aromas of fresh violets and pink roses. Blackberries and dark fruit. Black truffle and stone. It’s full-bodied with fantastic structure and tannins. Yet, it’s weightless and so beautiful. The length is ethereal and goes on for minutes. You taste it and it’s so wonderful that you want to drink it. One for the cellar. Better in 2028, but already a joy.

99 -Decanter -

Profoundly fascinating on the nose. Very floral. Irises and violets first, then hints of blossom and a whiff of graphite minerality – and then the fruit starts to appear. Damsons and blueberries, brambles and both black and red cherries. Truffles, too. This has a gorgeous texture. Broad and intense, yet deep and brooding and so soft it’s almost difficult to discern at first the considerable structure. A very fitting if exceptionally poignant tribute to the genius who created it (the late, great and much lamented Denis Durantou – this was his last vintage).

98+ -Robert Parker's Wine Advocate -

Unquestionably one of the wines of the vintage on the right bank, the late Denis Durantou's swan-song 2019 L'Eglise Clinet is showing very well indeed in bottle. Unfurling in the glass with aromas of dark berry fruit mingled with notions of raw cocoa, violets, black truffle, orange rind, burning embers and loamy soil, it's full-bodied, layered and concentrated, its velvety attack segueing into a deep, multidimensional core that's framed by ripe, powdery tannins and lively balancing acids. Seamless but youthfully structured, this is a prodigious young Pomerol that will richly reward bottle age.

98 -Vinous -

The 2019 L'Eglise-Clinet has a very pure and almost Burgundian bouquet with wild strawberry, Morello cherries, touches of cassis and violet petals. This is one of the most sensual in the line-up. The palate is medium-bodied with pliant tannins, velvety in texture, quite tensile thanks to the acidity. Beguiling purity, plush black cherries, plum and white pepper with a long and spicy finish. Superb. Tasted blind at the Southwold annual tasting.

97 -Jeb Dunnuck -

The flagship 2019 Château L'Eglise Clinet is brilliant, unquestionably ranking with the top wines in the appellation. Giving up loads of ripe darker cherries, currants, tobacco, cedarwood, and spring flowers, it hits the palate with full-bodied richness, a plush, layered, opulent mouthfeel, impressive tannins, and a great finish. I love its mid-palate, and it's one of the bigger, richer, sexier wines in the vintage. I'd be thrilled with bottles in the cellar. It offers pleasure even today yet should hit maturity in 7-8 years and have a drinking window stretching over the following two to three decades.

Technical Details

Blend 85% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc
Winemaker Denis Durentou
Country France
Region Bordeaux
Sub Region Right Bank
Appellation Pomerol
Vineyard Estate old vines, 25% over 75 years old, average age 40 years
Farming Method Organic fertilization only, every 5 years
Oak 70% new French oak
Fermentation Small, temperature-controlled stainless-stell vats
Aging / Cooperage 70% new French oak for 15 to 18 months
Alcohol 14.5%

Château L'Église-Clinet Pomerol 2019

Name: Château L'Église-Clinet Pomerol 2019
Brand: First Bottle
SKU: 1014847
Price: 339.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Bordeaux Blends | Bordeaux

JS100, DC99, WA98+, VN98, JD97

Organic fertilization only, every 5 years

$600.00

$339.00

750ML

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James Suckling awarded the 2019 L'Église-Clinet 100 points, Decanter 99, Wine Advocate 98+, Vinous 98, Jeb Dunnuck 97. Five critics, five extraordinary scores. The 2019 vintage delivered Denis Durantou's team a rich, perfectly ripe set of raw materials, and the resulting wine is a modern masterpiece: perfumed, structured, and built for the long haul, with the balance and harmony that defines the estate at its absolute best. Dark fruits, iron ore, exotic spice, and velvet tannins carry through an extraordinarily long finish. This is one of the great Pomerols of the decade, and the price here is exceptional. Grab yours before it's gone.

About The Producer

The origins of Château L'Église-Clinet trace back to 1803, when Jean Rouchut first acquired vines adjacent to a small cemetery in Pomerol, with the estate taking shape in 1882 when the family expanded through the acquisition of neighboring plots from the Domaine de Clinet. For most of its early history it was a quiet, unremarkable property — until Denis Durantou inherited it and took over operations in 1983. What he found was a cellar in disrepair: dirt floors, aging untempered vats, no temperature control. What followed was one of Pomerol's great transformation stories. Durantou replanted much of the 5.5-hectare vineyard, rebuilt the cellar from the ground up, and within two years began producing wines that drew mounting critical attention through the 1990s. Robert Parker famously called it "the sleeper château of the century," and the wines — concentrated, opulent, and built on some of the plateau's finest blue clay soils — earned comparisons to Pétrus at a fraction of the price. Durantou passed away in May 2020, a genuine loss to the world of Bordeaux, and today the estate is carried forward by his daughters Noémie and Constance Durantou, who are continuing his meticulous, low-intervention approach across the 4.4-hectare cross-shaped vineyard planted to 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc. Few estates in Pomerol have earned their reputation as honestly.

$600.00

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750ML

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