Lafleur 1996
Lafleur 1996
In Bond, excludes duty and VAT · 1x75cl
In bond price shown. Duty and VAT quoted on enquiry · 1x75cl
3 bottles available
From one of our suppliers. Usually ready 6 to 8 weeks after your order is confirmed.
UK duty is charged on a wine's alcohol strength (ABV). Until we have confirmed the ABV of this wine we cannot take a duty-paid order, so a duty-paid basket is sent to us as an enquiry. We reply with a delivered price including duty and VAT. Nothing is charged until you accept it.
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One bottle of Lafleur 1996, offered In Bond from one of our suppliers, usually ready 6 to 8 weeks after your order is confirmed. Price per bottle, In Bond UK.
Duty and VAT are payable only if you later withdraw the wine from bond. Transfers between bonded accounts are arranged by our team after purchase.
Price per bottle £450.00 In Bond, excludes duty and VATIn bond price. Duty and VAT quoted on enquiry
3 available, 1x75cl
Offered in bond. Duty and VAT are not included and become payable only if the wine is withdrawn from bond. Transfers between bonded accounts are arranged by our team after purchase.
UK duty is charged on a wine's alcohol strength (ABV). Until we have confirmed the ABV of this wine we cannot take a duty-paid order, so a duty-paid basket is sent to us as an enquiry. We reply with a delivered price including duty and VAT.
This wine comes from one of our suppliers and is usually ready 6 to 8 weeks after your order is confirmed.
Offered subject to availability. We confirm every wine with the supplier before your order is finalised, and contact you the same working day if anything has changed.
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- Format
- 1x75cl
- Vintage
- 1996
- Producer
- Lafleur
- Origin
- Pomerol, France
- Type
- Red
- Duty status
- In Bond
- Availability
- From our supplier, 6 to 8 weeks
What the critics say
90 WAWine Advocate, Robert Parker, 23-04-1999
As I suspected, the 1996 Lafleur is a painfully backward, austere wine that represents a modern day clone of this estate's 1966. It possesses a backward, tannic, Medoc-like character, with none of Pomerol's hallmark generosity. The wine exhibits a saturated dark purple color, as well as a distinctive mineral, black raspberry, and berry-scented nose with the steely, mineral Lafleur character well-displayed. Powerful, long, and rich, but excruciatingly tannic, this wine may or may not resolve all of its tannin. In short, it is an impressively constituted wine that is no sure thing. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2025.
Drink 2012 to 2025
89 VMVinous, Neal Martin, 02-09-2025
Like many of its Right Bank counterparts, the 1996 Lafleur was compromised by a growing season that completely favoured the Left Bank. It just lacks brightness and vitality on the nose, which foregrounds gravel and leather but is missing the fruit behind it. The palate is simple with slightly dry tannins, but this is not an astringent Lafleur and there is a sense of balance on the Médoc-like finish. Not the best Lafleur by a long way, but I prefer it to the under-performing '96 Petrus! Tasted from ex-château magnum at Kate & Kon's 40-Year vertical in Austria.
Drink 2025 to 2034
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