Château L'Eglise Clinet, Pomerol, 2023

Name: Château L'Eglise Clinet, Pomerol
Brand: Château L'Eglise Clinet
Price: 1252 GBP

Available Vintages

all 1995 2006 2009 2012 2018 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

justerini & brooks tasting note

"The finesse and architecture of the 2019 with the fruit and flesh of 2018" is how Noémie Durantou explains 2023. This was our first appointment of the week and it certainly raised our expectations. The entire range is exceptional so we had high hopes for Eglise Clinet… and we weren't disappointed. More reserved (than the Petite Eglise), but equally enthralling – with air suggestions of blood orange, minerals, griotte and pure hedgerow fruits emerge. This purrs across the palate with dark, ripe fruits and touches of spice. Packed with bright fruit and detail this is a very distinguished Pomerol, composed, refined, effortless, exuding long, noble flavours of spiced fruit, dark chocolate and ripe cherry on its velveteen tannins. Charm and power in equal measure. Superb. 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc.

critic reviews

97-99/100Lisa Perrotti-Brown,The Wine Independent

A blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc, L’Eglise-Clinet 2023 has a pH of 3.7. It is deep garnet-purple in color and opens with an initial burst of gregarious fruit, with blueberry preserves and ripe, juicy plums giving way to perfumed waves of lilacs, cinnamon stick, star anise, crushed rocks, and forest floor. The medium to full-bodied palate is tightly coiled at this stage with the taut, intense black and blue fruit core intertwined with minerals and exotic spices, supported by firm, rounded tannins and compelling tension, finishing very long and fragrant. A head-turner!

DRINKING WINDOW 2030 - 2060

date of review 05/2024

93/100Jane Anson,Inside Bordeaux

So delicious, a seriously impressive wine combining juicy spiced plum and damson fruits, bitter black chocolate and espresso, serious and reserved, with the creamy texture of Pomerol fruits emerging after a few minutes in the glass. Noëmie Durantou winemaker. Harvest September 1 to 18. 42hl/h yield.

DRINKING WINDOW 2027 - 2040

date of review 05/2024

98-100/100Neal Martin,Vinous

The 2023 L'Eglise-Clinet was picked between September 10 and 14 and matured in 82% new oak. It has a stunning bouquet with enthralling delineation and focus, very intense with blackberries, raspberry, crushed stone, Earl Grey and a touch of blood orange. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-boned tannins and a dash of cracked black pepper. It's very harmonious and fans out brilliantly on the finish. It is surely going to vie with the stupendous 2022, and this ranks as one of the best wines of the vintage. Tasted on two visits at the beginning and end of my Bordeaux tastings.

DRINKING WINDOW 2032 - 2060

date of review 04/2024

93-95/100William Kelley,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2023 L'Eglise Clinet unwinds in the glass with brooding aromas of dark berries and cherries mingled with baking chocolate, pipe tobacco and toasty new oak. Full-bodied, layered and muscular, with a sweet core of fruit framed by rich, powdery, generously extracted tannin, it's broad-shouldered and powerful, concluding with a long, expansive finish. It's a blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc that checks in at 14.6% alcohol.

date of review 04/2024