2024 La Fleur de Gay
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Tasting notes
Reserved on the first nose, but with plenty of sappy fruits, this has character and juice, not the full generosity of this estate in bigger vintages, but they have carefully controlled their extraction, just hint of bitter fennel on finish that adds focus.
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Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
Neal Martin, Vinous
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The 2024 La Fleur de Gay has a light nose with brambly red fruit, but there are certainly some underripe berries in the mix. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannins, but it feels dry and lacks fruit on the finish.
Violets. Blueberries. Griotte cherries. A little sweet spice from the oak and a little iron minerality – the crasse de fer perhaps a little more demonstrative than it usually is. Precise, focused and quite limpid. There’s not quite the sparkle and vivacity in the mid-palate of 2020 or 2022 but I like the choices made here.
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.