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2024 Lafleur

More from Société Civile du Ch. LafleurPomerolFranceAverage score 96/100
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FINE+RARE, Apr 2025

Closed at first, the aromatics gradually emerge, revealing a leafy note, graphite, delicate florals and pepper alongside red cherry fruit. The palate is crunchy and vibrant with tannins that build gradually, creating a firm framework that surrounds the dark fruit. The acidity is nicely integrated and the finish hints at the complexity to come, with the scent of spice and florals. This will need time to reach its potential, but is as promising as you’d expect from this leading estate. Blend: 55% Bouchet (Cabernet Franc), 45% Merlot

Critic Scores

Critic scores
96
96/100

Average Score

94
93-95+/100

Yohan Castaing, Wine Advocate

96
96/100

Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux

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94 - 96 points
Jeb Dunnuck
Score 94-96/100 · Jeb Dunnuck, May 2025

The 2024 Château Lafleur is classic in every way, offering a gorgeous perfume of black raspberries, gravelly earth, and spring flowers that evolves toward more violet and mineral-driven notes with air. Medium-bodied, with a layered, rounded mouthfeel, it's not massive but shines for its precision, ripe, polished tannins, and gorgeous finish. This is a wine that gains in nuance the longer it sits in the glass, and these subtle, graceful 2024s from the Guinaudeau family feel like a throwback to the 1980s, made with remarkable purity and precision.

95 - 97 points
Lisa Perrotti-Brown, The Wine Independent
Score 95-97/100 · Lisa Perrotti-Brown, The Wine Independent, May 2025

Deep garnet-purple colored. Needs a lot of shaking to unlock notes of fresh red cherries, black raspberries, and blackberries, opening out to hints of lilac, Sichuan pepper, underbrush, and fertile loam. The medium-bodied palate delivers a firm frame of grainy tannins and just enough freshness to support the tightly knit red and black berry layers, finishing on a lingering fragrant earth note.

93 - 95+ points
Yohan Castaing, Wine Advocate
Score 93-95+/100 · Yohan Castaing, Wine Advocate, Apr 2025

The 2024 Lafleur is an ode to leisurely, slow ripening, offering a delicately perfumed bouquet of violets, cherries, cassis, flowers and spices. Medium to full-bodied, layered and pure, it's seamless and polished with ultrarefined tannins and a delicate yet vibrant core of fruit, culminating in a long, ethereal finish laced with rose petal nuances. Less dense and structured than many recent vintages, it evokes the charm and elegance of 1983 or 1985, reimagined through a modern lens (and a cooler, wetter growing season), both in viticulture and vinification.

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Société Civile du Ch. Lafleur

The Société Civile du Ch. Lafleur is the collective name for the Guinaudeau family’s wines and estates. These are some of the Right Bank’s most famous wines, including Ch. Lafleur and Les Pensées in Pomerol, along with Les Perrières, Les Champs Libres and Ch. Grand Village in Fronsac.

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Pomerol
Right Bank
Bordeaux
France
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Société Civile du Ch. Lafleur

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Wine

Product Type

Still wine

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