Château L'Eglise-Clinet -Subskription-

98-100/100 Vinous The 2023 L'Eglise-Clinet was picked between September 10 and 14 and matured in 82% new oak. It has a stunning bouquet with enthralling delineation and focus, very intense with blackberries, raspberry, crushed stone, Earl Grey and a touch of blood orange. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-boned tannins and a dash of cracked black pepper. It's very harmonious and fans out brilliantly on the finish. It is surely going to vie with the stupendous 2022, and this ranks as one of the best wines of the vintage. Tasted on two visits at the beginning and end of my Bordeaux tastings. - Neal Martin 97-99/100 The Wine Cellar Insider The wine quickly focuses you on its floral characteristics paired with black raspberries, plums, black, with white cherries, dark chocolate, and just an edge of coffee beans. The palate however, is where the excitement takes place. The wine is opulent, rich, aromatic, concentrated, and long. The mark of freshness is there, but, you also experience the wine's elegance, and silky tannins, as well as its length, and width on the mid-palate, and finish. Interestingly, here, it was the moderate amount of sun hours that helped make the vintage as it shielded the grapes from the late summer heat wave. From a blend of 90% Merlot with 10% Cabernet Franc, 14.60% ABV. The harvest took place September 10-September 14. It is great to see continuing strong wines from the Durantou family. Drink from 2029-2060. 97-99 Pts. - Jeff Leve 97-98/100 Jamessuckling.com The purity and precision tof this young Eglise Clinet is exceptional, with finesse, intensity and fine tannins that last for minutes on the palate. It grows slowly and then builds and continues. The energy is terrific. Finishes long and confident. All about structure with finesse. The tannins really are refined and tightly woven. 90% merlot and 10% cabernet franc. - James Suckling 95-97/100 Jeb Dunnuck The Grand Vin 2023 Château L'Eglise Clinet checks in as 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc that's resting in 82% new barrels. It brings another level of density as well as purity, with fabulous notes of cassis, ripe black cherries, chocolate, smoked tobacco, iron, and spice, as well as a kiss of background graphite. Medium to full-bodied, concentrated, yet very much in the vibrant, fresh, classic style of the vintage, it has ripe tannins and a gorgeous finish. It shines on all accounts, offering beautiful purity and complexity and plenty of richness, and it should have a broad, lengthy drink window. - Jeb Dunnuck 94-97/100 Vinous The 2023 L’Eglise-Clinet is fabulous. Rich, deep and vertical in structure, this is all poise. Nothing in particular stands out, as all the elements are impeccably balanced. Time in the glass helps this open a bit, but the 2023 is a wine of reserve—a wine that is not showing all its cards. Gravel, incense, tobacco, dried herbs and mocha open with some coaxing. This will be stellar in time. - Antonio Galloni 93-95/100 Wine Advocate The 2023 L'Eglise Clinet unwinds in the glass with brooding aromas of dark berries and cherries mingled with baking chocolate, pipe tobacco and toasty new oak. Full-bodied, layered and muscular, with a sweet core of fruit framed by rich, powdery, generously extracted tannin, it's broad-shouldered and powerful, concluding with a long, expansive finish. It's a blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc that checks in at 14.6% alcohol. - William Kelley 98-100/100 Yvesbeck.wine Die Gelassenheit, die das Bouquet von Eglise-Clinet 2023 ausstrahlt, sagt viel über die Größe des Weins aus! Alles ist bestens aufeinander abgestimmt, allein schon im Hinblick auf die Nase. Die Botschaft ist klar und deutlich zu erkennen. Der Auftakt erfolgt sanft, leise, Schritt für Schritt. Der Wein nimmt seinen Platz ein, beobachtet und drückt sich dann aus, mit leiser Stimme. Er wird bei diesem Vorgang von seinen Tanninen unterstützt, die es ihm ermöglichen, die großen Ambitionen umzusetzen, die er in sich trägt und die ihm die Familie Durantou zu verleihen wusste. Die feinkörnigen und präzisen Tannine sind herausragend. Die stille Kraft ist offensichtlich und wird durch die prägnante Seite der subtilen Säurestruktur ergänzt, die das Finale buchstäblich beflügelt. Dies ist sicherlich einer der sehr großen 2023er von Pomerol. Voller Finesse, aber mit Überzeugungskraft und Treffsicherheit. Ein Rezital aus Genuss, Arbeit und einem ebenso berührenden wie schlüssigen Finale! - Yves Beck 97/100 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Rises through the palate, intense and concentrated with cloves, pomegranate, black pepper, cumin, rosemary, rich black fruits balanced and given lift and contrast by nuanced and fresher raspberry leaf, tomato leaf, saline squid ink, and fresh citrus peel acidities. This has cohesion, precision, lift and character. Noëmie Durantou winemaker. Harvest September 1 to 18. 42hl/h yield. - Jane Anson 96/100 My Bettane + Desseauve Belle vitalité du fruit en attaque, avec un modèle de style recherché par les actuelles propriétaires, pour la fraîcheur de constitution et un phrasé soyeux délicieux déclinant des accents de violette, de pivoine et une touche saline bienvenue. - Bettane & Desseauve