Chateau Lafleur, Pomerol 2025
Standard - 75cl
Stock location: United Kingdom
ETA: 5-7 weeks
- Vintage2025
- ColourRed
- ProducerChateau Lafleur
- CountryFrance
- RegionBordeaux
- Sub RegionPomerol
- DesignationVdF
- Bottle SizeStandard - 75cl
- ABV13.5
- LWIN10119022025
- Avg. Critic Score4.7★★★★★★★★★★
Wine Critic Reviews
The 2025 Lafleur was picked early, from August 26 to 28 and from September 10 to 12 for the Cabernet Franc. Of course, this is the first year when the wine is classified as Vin de France after water was added to the soil, contravening Pomerol's AC rules. Discussing at length with Baptiste Guinaudeau, whilst I can see that it would essentially resuscitate the parched vine, the amounts are too little to affect the wine when considering the actual rainfall figures. For sure, it has a bashful bouquet at first and demands time to really open in the glass, 10 to 15 minutes. Only then does it reveal enticing scents of blackcurrant, bilberry, crushed stone and iris flower, all beautifully defined and very succinct—quintessential Lafleur. The palate is medium-bodied and framed by chiselled tannins that lend this Pomerol beguiling symmetry. What really marks this Lafleur is its tremendous persistence on the finish. It just goes on and on. This is a great Lafleur, irrespective of what it took to get there.
- Drinking Window: 2034 - 2060
- Reviewer Name: Neal Martin
- Review Date: May 2026
The 2025 Lafleur is generous and expressive, bursting with aromas of sweet cherries and raspberries mingled with notions of licorice, anise and violets. Full-bodied, dense and muscular, with a fleshy attack that segues into an ample, layered core of primary fruit, it's built around plenty of sweet, powdery tannin. This is a large-scaled Lafleur endowed with everything in abundance.
- Reviewer Name: William Kelley
- Review Date: April 2026