2017 La Fleur de Gay
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A tight and focused red with dark-berry, light wet-earth and dark-chocolate character. Medium body, firm tannins and a clean finish.
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James Suckling
Neal Martin
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The 2017 La Fleur de Gay offers much more concentration than its sibling La Croix de Gay, the vines located central on the gravel plateau bestowing higher quality fruit: crushed strawberry and cranberry, a touch of truffle and smoke. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy black fruit, a fine bead of acidity and a fresh finish with good tension and length. This is a very fine La Fleur de Gay that should age well in bottle.
The medium to deep garnet-purple colored 2017 La Fleur de Gay opens with earthy notions of underbrush, dusty soil and mossy bark over a core of red currant jelly and black cherries. Medium to full-bodied, firm and chewy, it has a little dip in the mid-palate but recovers slightly on the finish with some lovely fragrant earth nuances. Apr 2018, www.robertparker.com
About the producer
Chantal Lebreton-Reynaud is in charge of this 4.2-hectare estate, working with her three sons (Jean-Pascal, Olivier and Julien). The plots sit on gravel and sandier soils, in the hamlet of Pignon, in the north of Pomerol.