Chateau Clinet Pomerol 2016 i trækasse

"99 points. A magical sense of purity and elegance.. " - Jeb Dunnuck
"97 points. Deep garnet-purple color with cedar and smoked meats..." - Robert Parker
"97 points. Floral, violet-stained edging and a silky smooth tannic frame." - Decanter

Anmeldelser af Chateau Clinet Pomerol 2016

99/100 Jeb Dunnuck
"Tasted on four separate occasions, the 2016 Château Clinet is another brilliant wine from this estate. Showing slightly more freshness and purity than the 2015, its saturated purple color is followed by a thrilling array of crème de cassis, graphite, ground herbs, and a terrific sense of minerality. Deep, full-bodied, with building tannins, and a magical sense of purity and elegance paired with real density and depth, it needs short term cellaring and will keep for three decades."

98/100 Tastingbook.com

97/100 Robert Parker
"The 2016 Clinet is composed of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon. It was aged using the Oxoline system, in 70% new and 30% one-year-old barrels for 16 months. It has a deep garnet-purple color with cedar and smoked meats on the nose giving way to black and red plums and earthy notions with wafts of cassis and pencil shavings. The palate is medium to full-bodied, elegant, polished and vivacious with loads of red and black fruit layers and an earthy finish."

97/100 Decanter
"This is a wine that makes you want to slow down, take your time and let those flavours envelop you. It's a little subdued right now, but the texture pulls you in and holds on tight. There is Cabernet in the DNA here and you feel it: a touch of austerity in the first breath, then an intense punch of dark, tight cassis fruits with a liquorice and dark chocolate finish. It's taken on more flesh on the bones during ageing, with the aromatics blossoming through the glass and revealing floral, violet-stained edging and a silky smooth tannic frame."

96+/100 Vinous
"The 2016 Clinet, a blend of 88% Merlot and 12% Cabernet Sauvignon, was cropped at 49hl/ha and matured in 70% new oak. It has a quintessential Pomerol bouquet of vibrant floral aromas, black cherries and hints of Christmas cake and truffle. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin and very harmonious and refined. The sample at the château showed a touch more backbone than the one at the London UGC tastings, offering plenty of blackberry and black olive notes and then turning saline toward the dense, muscular finish. A classy, sophisticated Clinet that will reward those with the nous to cellar it for several years. Outstanding." 

96/100 Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider
"Combines elegance, grace and concentration, with purity and freshness, allowing the silky, lush, chocolate infused, plums and black cherries to shine through all those truffles. Long and complex, with the ability to age for decade, this is not as user friendly as the 2015, so allow it at least a decade to age and develop."

95/100 James Suckling
"Beautiful blue fruit and earth with hints of black truffle, this has a violet and fragrant edge, too. Really complex, youthful impression here. The palate has mouthwatering fruit flavor and terrific sense of fresh energy and cut on the finish. A blend of 90 per cent merlot and ten per cent cabernet sauvignon."

95/100 Jeannie Cho Lee, MW

Bag om Chateau Clinet

Allerede tilbage i 1785 var der plantet vinstokke på jorden ved Château Clinet, hvilket gør slottet til en af de ældste ejendomme i Pomerol. Château Clinet blev etableret i det 19. århundrede af Arnaud-familien.

I 1980’erne var slottet ejet af en handelsmand ved navn Georges Audy og styret af hans svigersøn Jean-Michel Arcaute med Michel Rolland som konsulent. Arcaute havde en klar vision: at bringe slottet i den absolutte topklasse. Derfor begyndte han at ændre på praksisserne i vinmarken og eksperimenterede bla. med grøn høst.

I 1998 blev slottet solgt til den nuværende ejer Jean-Louis Laborde, og tingene ændrede sig endnu engang, da hans søn Ronan Laborde fik ansvaret for forvaltningen af ejendommen efter Arcautes tragiske død.  Han omplantede 20 % af markerne, reducerede brugen af nye franske fade fra 100 til 60 % og udvidede markarealet. Det er ellers en vanskelig opgave i Pomerol, hvor der er mangel på land.

De fleste af markerne er beplantet med Merlot, og til ejendommen er knyttet en speciel parcel kendt som ’’La Grand Vigne’’ med ældgamle vinstokke og det (aller)bedste terroir. Ronan Laborde, som tidligere var en succesfuld maratonløber, har nu kanaliseret al sin energi over i vin og stræber ihærdigt efter at gøre Château Clinet til et af topslottene i Bordeaux.

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