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The October 2018 Internet-Only Auction Part 4
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88-89+JG
"Château Tournefeuille was one of the very pleasant surprises for me on this trip, as I had never tasted the wine previously from this excellent Lalande de Pomerol producer. The estate is located right on the Pomerol border, as it sits up on the plateau right above Latour à Pomerol and is clearly one of the very best-situated terroirs in the commune. The soil is a fifty-fifty mix of gravel and clay, à la Pomerol and the vines here are quite old, with nearly seventy percent thirty years of age or more. The wine is made in a very traditional style by the proprietor, Emeric Petit, and the cépages of seventy percent merlot and thirty percent cabernet franc allows for plenty of complexity and potential for longevity. The wine is raised for twelve months in barrel, with one third new each year. The nose on the 2009 is ripe, but not overripe, as it offers up a deep and complex mélange of black cherries, mocha, lovely soil tones, woodsmoke and a deft touch of new oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, complex and firmly tannic, with a fine core of fruit, lovely focus and balance and a long, classy and chewy finish. This wine will need six or seven years of cellaring to fully blossom and should prove to be the wine of the vintage in Lalande de Pomerol with little or no competition. It is decidedly superior to many of the highly-touted Right Bank wines from the consulting wizards. I also had the pleasure to taste the 2003 and 2004 Tournefeuille on this trip and was very impressed by both vintages. An important name to remember if one likes old school claret."
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"Château Tournefeuille was one of the very pleasant surprises for me on this trip, as I had never tasted the wine previously from this excellent Lalande de Pomerol producer. The estate is located right on the Pomerol border, as it sits up on the plateau right above Latour à Pomerol and is clearly one of the very best-situated terroirs in the commune. The soil is a fifty-fifty mix of gravel and clay, à la Pomerol and the vines here are quite old, with nearly seventy percent thirty years of age or more. The wine is made in a very traditional style by the proprietor, Emeric Petit, and the cépages of seventy percent merlot and thirty percent cabernet franc allows for plenty of complexity and potential for longevity. The wine is raised for twelve months in barrel, with one third new each year. The nose on the 2009 is ripe, but not overripe, as it offers up a deep and complex mélange of black cherries, mocha, lovely soil tones, woodsmoke and a deft touch of new oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, complex and firmly tannic, with a fine core of fruit, lovely focus and balance and a long, classy and chewy finish. This wine will need six or seven years of cellaring to fully blossom and should prove to be the wine of the vintage in Lalande de Pomerol with little or no competition. It is decidedly superior to many of the highly-touted Right Bank wines from the consulting wizards. I also had the pleasure to taste the 2003 and 2004 Tournefeuille on this trip and was very impressed by both vintages. An important name to remember if one likes old school claret."
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