2018 La Fleur de Bouard
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The 2018 La Fleur de Boüard is very well defined on the nose, gorgeous scents of blackberry, blueberry, violet and potpourri bursting from the glass but retaining fine delineation and focus. The palate is crisp on the entry, with graphite-tinged black fruit framed by fine tannins and a structured, tensile finish. This is one of the best La Fleur de Boüard vintages that I have encountered. Excellent.
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James Suckling
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate
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Always one of the gems in a vintage, the 2018 Château La Fleur De Boüard is a no-brainer purchase and has a ripe, medium to full-bodied, sexy style that carries lots of sweet cassis, spicy oak, flowers, and scorched earth-like aromas and flavors. With plenty of fruit, notable freshness and purity, and the vintage's elegant, seamless style front and center, it's already hard to resist, yet it will integrate its oak over the coming 3-4 years and shine over the following decade or more.
The 2018 La Fleur de Boüard is laced with copious dark fruit, sweet oak, vanillin, spice and torrefaction. A rich, sumptuous wine, the La Fleur de Boüard shows the more flamboyant side of Lalande de Pomerol. This is an especially dense, extracted style.