Château L'Eglise Clinet, Pomerol, 2021

Name: Château L'Eglise Clinet, Pomerol
Brand: Château L'Eglise Clinet
Price: 1012.33 GBP

Available Vintages

all 1995 2006 2009 2012 2018 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

justerini & brooks tasting note

Produced from a blend of 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc, the 2021 is a little introverted, but has all the potential to be another splendid wine from one of Pomerol's most successful and consistent addresses. Tobacco leaf, flowers, blood orange, a hint of black cherry and a touch of toast. A lively, vibrant core of pure seductive raspberry plays with layers of savoury earthy notes. Not the most formidable Eglise Clinet, but there's plenty of underlying power. This finishes with well-judged tannins flecked with bittersweet berries, gravelly minerals and graphite. Lots of quality here.

critic reviews

95/100Lisa Perrotti-Brown,The Wine Independent

A blend of 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc, L’Eglise-Clinet 2021 was aged in 75% new oak. It has a deep garnet-purple color and strides confidently out of the glass with bold notes of juicy black plums, Morello cherries, and wild blueberries, plus suggestions of licorice, violets, and wet slate. The medium-bodied palate has a plush texture and bags of freshness framing the bright, expressive black and red berry flavors, finishing long with a spicy lift. Beautiful!

DRINKING WINDOW 2027 - 2045

date of review 04/2024

96/100Jane Anson,Inside Bordeaux

Carved, precise and energetic, I described this as intellectual during En Primeur, and I stand by that assessment now. Waves of cloves and liqourice root, fine tannins, blueberry, redcurrant, tobacco, red rose petals, blackberry, mandarin zest, slate minerality. This can be approached earlier than many L'Eglise Clinet, maybe 7 or 8 years after harvest, but it will still be revealing new facets after 15 or 20 years. Harvest September 27 to 29, no chaptilisation, 75% new oak.

DRINKING WINDOW 2028 - 2044

date of review 03/2024

95/100Neal Martin,Vinous

The 2021 L'Eglise-Clinet is a wine that I gave five to ten minutes to open in the glass. It is worth being patient, as it responds with gorgeous black cherries, blueberry and violet scents, hints of crushed stone and a subtle marine element emerging with time. The palate is medium-bodied with blackberry, boysenberry, oyster shell and blood orange. Very harmonious and almost Lafleur-like in style (no surprise given their proximity, though less Cabernet Franc in the blend here) with a persistent finish, this is a contender for Right Bank of the vintage, perhaps even the best Bordeaux from both Banks.

DRINKING WINDOW 2029 - 2060

date of review 02/2024

94/100William Kelley,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2021 L'Eglise Clinet is one of the more muscular, powerful wines of the vintage, unwinding in the glass with aromas of dark berries, incense, licorice, spices and toasty new oak. Medium to full-bodied, with a broad attack that segues into a mid-palate framed by ripe, powdery, richly extracted tannins, it's a dense, youthfully introverted Pomerol that's defined more by its terroir and winemaking than it is by the vintage.

DRINKING WINDOW 2027 - 2051

date of review 02/2024