Lafleur Size:3L nicely detailed with blacker fruit

nicely detailed with blacker fruit uncovered by aeration

white pepper and mouth scraping salinity on the finish

The 2011 Chateauneuf du Pape Deus ex Machina is a stunner in the vintage

Clos Solon

Lafleur Size:3L nicely detailed with blacker fruitThis bottle of 1998 Lafleur exudes such mineralit on the nose that it is rendered more distant and less appeasing to the senses than the 1999 Lafleur. However, there is undeniably brilliant delineation with almost flint like scents filtering through the black sultry fruit. It is certainly less opulently gregarious than bottles tasted within the first decade of its life. The palate is medium bodied with tannins just beginning to soften, less