2011 Château l'Église-Clinet
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Clearly one of the wines of the vintage 2011 Eglise Clinet is top class. Rich and full bodied. It has a seamless character and a lovely savoury aspect. The tanins are very fine and abundant with chinks of light glinting through the dense ripe fruit. Bravo!
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Jeannie Cho Lee MW
James Suckling
More reviews and scores
The 2011 l'Eglise-Clinet has a generous and high-toned bouquet with menthol-tinged red berry fruit, a hint of cough candy and black olive. This has good complexity and focus, manifesting more elegant and precision with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with lithe tannins, touches of mocha and black pepper infusing the red berry fruit, very cohesive with admirable concentration on the finish. This is drinking superbly now. Gorgeous. Tasted blind at the annual 10-Year-On tasting.
Tasted blind. Very meaty on the nose. Savoury and saline on the palate. Vigorous and punchy. Great balance and life here with fruit and tannin in balance and signs of potential. Lots of sweetness. (JR)
The 2011 L’Eglise-Clinet was picked 12 to 15 September for the Merlot and 24 September for the Cabernet Franc. It has a harmonious bouquet that does not quite possess the vivacity and fruit intensity of the 2012. This is much more conservative in style but still very attractive with scents of mulberry, black truffle and light mushroom scents, perhaps ushering in secondary aromas quicker than the 2012. The palate is medium-bodied with fine grain tannin, crisp acidity, a little spicier than the succeeding vintage but with fine salinity towards the finish. Tasted at the l’Eglise-Clinet vertical at the château in April 2018.
About the producer
Ch. l'Eglise-Clinet is one of the most unassuming wine estates in Bordeaux. You'd probably drive past it if you didn't have prior knowledge of its vinous output. There's no ostentatious gateway nor sweeping gravel drive.