1985 La Fleur Petrus
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This wine merits attention largely because of the very complex aromatics that consist of menthol, tomato skin, cedar, smoke, sweet cherries, and plums. In the mouth, the attack is impressive, medium-bodied, elegant, soft, pure, and the finish is all velvet, but there is not much intensity or follow-through. The wine is also fully mature, as evidenced by the creeping considerable amber at the color’s rim. Anticipated maturity: Drink up. Last tasted, 3/02.
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Very ripe and rich but a little rustic, with berry, meaty and earthy character. Mouth-filling fruit. long finish. Drinkable now.--The Bordeaux 50.James Suckling, Wine Spectator 1994
This wine merits attention largely because of the very complex aromatics that consist of menthol, tomato skin, cedar, smoke, sweet cherries, and plums. In the mouth, the attack is impressive, medium-bodied, elegant, soft, pure, and the finish is all velvet, but there is not much intensity or follow-through. The wine is also fully mature, as evidenced by the creeping considerable amber at the color’s rim. Anticipated maturity: Drink up. Last tasted, 3/02. Jan 2003, www.robertparker.com
About the producer
Château La Fleur-Pétrus was the first acquisition of many in Pomerol by Jean Pierre Moueix, who went on to own Château Trotanoy, Château Hosanna and most notably Pétrus. Jean Pierre Moueix was born in Corèzze in moved to Saint-Émilion with his parent in 1929 following the Great Depression.