Chateau La Tour Blanche Sauternes 1989
Chateau la Tour Blanche
Chateau La Fleur de Bouard wine is produced from a specific a two hectare parcel of old vines that average 45 years of age, situated on the Lalande de Pomerol plateau.
The 2 hectare vineyard has a terroir that is similar to Pomerol with its gravel and clay soils. The vineyard is planted to a vine density that ranges from 6,500 vines per hectare in the parcels with the oldest vines up to 8,500 vines per hectare in the more recent plantings.
In the vineyards of La Fleur de Bouard Le Plus, yields are kept low. To give you an idea of how low the yields are, for the 2009 vintage, the yields of La Fleur de Bouard Le Plus were only 20 hectolitres per hectare.
Along the very expensive method of producing the wine, the fact that only 300 to 400 cases of La Fleur de Bouard Le Plus are produced each year, makes this a unique wine for the Lalande de Pomerol appellation. On a quality level, it competes with and is better than many Pomerol wines. Based on a recent tasting of the 2000, it ages quite well too.
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CLTB198910 UCAU
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Intense and exotic; ripe and rich botrytis flavors explode on the palate to a long finish. Very sweet and full in body, it packs in the spice, white pepper, cream, coffee, quince and dried apricot notes.
- Wine Spectator
Medium to deep gold colour. Peach, citrus, honey, flowers on the nose with a hint of volatile acidity. There is a beautiful combination of richness and smoothness on the mid-palate, as this wine glides seamlessly. Flavours of crème brûlée, orange marmalade, vanilla bean, apricot, honey and pineapple.
Intense and exotic; ripe and rich botrytis flavors explode on the palate to a long finish. Very sweet and full in body, it packs in the spice, white pepper, cream, coffee, quince and dried apricot notes.
- Wine Spectator
Medium to deep gold colour. Peach, citrus, honey, flowers on the nose with a hint of volatile acidity. There is a beautiful combination of richness and smoothness on the mid-palate, as this wine glides seamlessly. Flavours of crème brûlée, orange marmalade, vanilla bean, apricot, honey and pineapple.
Scores & Reviews
92 / 100
Wine Spectator
Intense and exotic; ripe and rich botrytis flavors explode on the palate to a long finish. Very sweet and full in body, it packs in the spice, white pepper, cream, coffee, quince and dried apricot notes.
90 / 100
Robert Parker
Although loosely structured, the 1989 reveals plenty of intense, honeyed fruit in a rich, authoritative, full-bodied format. A big, powerhouse, sweet, heavy wine with a penetrating fragrance of honey and flowers, this generously endowed wine already drinks well, but can easily last for 15-20 years.
17 / 20
Jancis Robinson MW
Deepish gold. Complex honeyed richness on the nose, still with barley sugar notes, and bags of spice. Tastes somehow of gold – a sort of oily minerality through the heart of all those complex botrytis orange flavours. Some almond paste but really so hard to describe. Quince paste, sour and sweet all at once. Very long and incredibly complex.