Château L'Eglise Clinet

Château L'Eglise Clinet, Pomerol, 2013

Name: Château L'Eglise Clinet, Pomerol
Brand: Château L'Eglise Clinet
Price: 511.22 GBP

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2013
6x75cl
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£511.22
2013
6x75cl
DP
£613.22

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Denis always has a catchphrase for each vintage. He describes the 2013s as 'unspittable' wines. It's a bon mot. 'Unspittable', because there is so little wine it would be a crime to, and 'unspittable' as the wines are gourmand and cry out to be consumed! Some 10,000 bottles of Grand Vin will be produced in 2013. It is unfair to compare this to the outstanding 2012, it doesn't possess the same power, complexity or density, but it is nonetheless a wonderful wine. Denis explained that July was hotter than 2003, which has certainly helped to break down any unwanted methoxypyrazines. Thus the flavours are ripe with no hints of greenness. By the standards of the vintage, this is a big impressive wine. Fragrant, complex, decadent, even intellectual. The most striking characteristic is the precision of flavour. This is a suave, elegant Eglise Clinet, packed with cherry liqueur and griotte notes over layers of stoney minerality. It may not be a blockbuster, but it is charm personified and will reward collectors who tuck a case away for a decade.

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Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

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Specifications

Country:

France

Region:

Bordeaux

Appellation:

Pomerol

Producer:

Château L'Eglise Clinet

style:

Red Wine

Grape Variety:

Merlot Cabernet Franc

abv:

14.5%

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.