Château Lafleur

Les Pensées, Pomerol, 2024

Name: Les Pensées, Pomerol
Brand: Château Lafleur
Price: 780 GBP

93/100

Inside Bordeaux

94-96/100

The Wine Independent

92-94/100

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2024
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£390.00
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£780.00
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3x1.5L
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£780.00

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

It’s impossible to de-throne Chateau Lafleur, however, at our barrel tasting, Les Pensées was perhaps the most seductive and ravishing wine in the Guinaudeau line up. Hailing from the diagonal strip through the middle of the vineyard, with a more classical, Pomerol geology, the 2024 opens with gorgeous aromas of fragrant raspberry, crème de mûre, and loganberries that mingle with cedar and eucalyptus, alongside the floral elegance of iris and peonies. The palate is remarkably suave, a true charmer: graceful, pure and pixilated. It possesses great depth without being heavy, offering blue fruit, plum, and ripe cherry notes alongside a loamy character. Despite the generous, mouth filling quality of the fruit, it feels composed and sensual, revealing red cherries, mulberries, and further mineral tones, with a hint of cigar wrapper. All this ravishing fruit is enveloped by perfectly judged tannins, providing structure, nuance and a reverberating, mouthwatering finish. So impressive.

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Critic Reviews

94-96/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

Deep garnet-purple colored. Sashays out with bold notes of raspberry coulis, black cherries, and mulberries, leading to hints of forest floor, crushed rocks, and lavender oil. The medium-bodied palate is bright and shimmery with layers of red berries and mineral, framed by super-silky tannins and seamless freshness, finishing long and layered.

drinking window 2027 - 2042

date of review 05/2025

92-94/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2024 Les Pensées was picked September 23 to 30. This has quite a complex bouquet with blackcurrant, bilberry and light estuarine scents percolating through with time. The palate is quite arresting, one of the few Merlot wines with genuine grip and heft, but it maintains refinement on the peppery finish. The 2024 feels long and sustained and worthy of bottle age. It will develop wonderfully in time.

drinking window 2028 - 2048

date of review 05/2025

93/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

Sweet damson fruit aromatics, good density, Pomerol character, rose petals, smoked earth and grilled red plum, this has touches of sweet almond and salted caramel, giving salinity and lift, gently placed tannins, pulses of minerality that delivers the freshness of the year without aggression. Yields here in the late 30s, higher than average in Pomerol. Harvest 25 September to 3 October.

drinking window 2027 - 2036

date of review 04/2025

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Merlot Cabernet Franc

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13.5%

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