Château l'Église Clinet 2012
Descripción
L'Église-Clinet es un pequeño château situado en el corazón de Pomerol aclamado por la crítica por lograr añada tras añada las más altas puntaciones de la región. Y esta cosecha lo atestigua a lograr la máxima posible concedida por The Wine Advocate: 100 puntos Parker. Carnoso y envolvente, profundo, amplio y simplemente eterno.
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Viñedo y elaboración
Opinión de los críticos
A wine that wins my nomination for the title of "wine of the vintage" is the 2012 L'Eglise Clinet, a fleshy and enveloping Pomerol evocative of dark cherries and berries mingled with licorice, spices, pencil lead, truffle and rose petals. Full-bodied, broad and textural, it's lavish and expansive, with terrific depth at the core, supple tannins and a long, resonant finish. Seamless, charming and impeccably balanced, this transcends the vintage, and while it's deceptively drinkable now, it remains a mere adolescent at age 11.
This big, showy wine with lots of body and structure wowed a group of tasters who rated it higher than the first growths. Certainly a splendid effort, with smoky, ripe, concentrated fruit, but a bit of a bruiser. Denis Durantou, who died too young in 2020 aged 62, was on top form at the time.