2020 Enclos Tourmaline
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Tasting notes
The Enclos Tourmaline is opaque in colour with a brooding, compacted nose. It has lovely high-quality, toasted oak notes of dry spice interspersed with iron-esque mineral tones and subtle floral, violet aromas. Ripe, pristine plum and blueberry fruit dominate the palate. The tannins are very detailed and fine. The palate is dense, rich and layered, but not over the top, with lovely restraint and a distinct textural finesse. What’s more, there’s a vibrant acidic energy running straight down the middle of the palate, adding real excitement. The wine is backed by touch of firmness and good mineral underpinning. This is very well-balanced. Excellent.
Critic scores
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James Suckling
Jane Anson, Decanter
More reviews and scores
The winemaker used to be at La Violette. Tasted blind. Black core. Dark-fruited but fragrant with a nice lifted stony character. Rich, dark, dense and chewy, packed with fruit and the tannins are polished. Dense but vibrant. Lots of power and lots of fruit. Great length. (JH)
The 2020 L'Enclos Tourmaline has a potent nose with generous blackberry and boysenberry fruit. It verges on overripeness but just about manages to retain delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannins. It's fine-boned but lacks a bit of weight in the middle, becoming linear and conservative toward the finish. That said, I appreciate its classical bent. Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting.
A broad, ripe, expressive wine, the 2020 Enclos Tourmaline offers up aromas of cherries and plums mingled with licorice and toasty new oak, followed by a medium to full-bodied, expansive, fleshy palate. This is a rich, broad-shouldered wine from holdings on the plateau respectively located between Le Pin and Trotanoy, opposite Clinet, and opposite the château of La Fleur-Pétrus.
About the producer
Enclos Tourmaline is a single one-hectare plot situated on the Pomerol plateau next to Château Clinet and Château Feytit-Clinet. Before being bought by Peter Kwok in 2012, the vineyard was part of the Château La Patache property.