Chateau Lafleur 2019 - 1.5 Litre Bottle

100 Points - Robert Parker

The 2019 Lafleur is an utterly profound young wine that unwinds in the glass with aromas of rose petals, raspberries and sweet spices mingled with notions of blood orange, violets and fresh tobacco hauntingly reminiscent of this estate's incredible 1982. Full-bodied, deep and seamless, it's layered and multidimensional, with a concentrated core of vibrant fruit, lively acids and ripe, powdery tannins, concluding with a long, searingly intense finish. This magical Lafleur is unquestionably one of the wines of the vintage. Drink Date 2029 - 2069

100 Points - Jeb Dunnuck

If tasting the 2019, Chateau Lafleur doesn't just blow you away. I'm not sure what will. A perfect wine, if such a thing exists, offers such a complex, singular profile in its black raspberries, kirsch liqueur, licorice, exotic flowers, white truffles, and sandalwood. It has a severe structure on the palate, yet the tannins build with time in the glass, and the mid-palate density and balance are so flawlessly integrated that you must hunt for the structure. This is what wine dreams are made of pure, sensationally rich, and elegant, with incredible depth of fruit. It might be the finest young wine ever to pass my lips. It needs a solid decade of bottle age, 15 years would be even better (it will still blow your mind any time over the coming decade), and it will evolve gracefully over the following 30-40 years.

100 Points - James Suckling

This is crazy on the nose with crushed stones and violets rising above the glass, together with iodine, seaweed and ink. Spellbinding. Full-bodied, yet so tight and reserved, with a fine cashmere-like texture and endless length and energy. You can sense the stones and the earth here, but then it reaches the skies. It's open, but you feel the depth of the soil—a reference point for the vintage. Try after 2028.