Clos Lavaud - Lalande de Pomerol Estate 2018

Kosherwinemusings 2018 Clos Lavaud, Lalande de Pomerol – Score: 93 (QPR: WINNER)

This wine is already showing beautifully and has a great approach that makes me smile. The nose of this wine starts with bramble, smoke, dirt, earth, roasted herb, forest floor, almost mushroom notes, mint, rosemary, nice red and black fruit, and bramble. The mouth of this medium to full-bodied wine is nice showing great acidity, green notes, bramble, cherry, raspberry, plum, and tart fruit, with nice mouth-coating tannin, fun Brett, nice plush mouthfeel, and good extraction, with green notes, menthol, and herbs. After tasting this again in Paris it shows richer and denser with more graphite, mineral, lovely black fruit, and elegance. Bravo! The finish is long, green, herbal, smoky, extracted, and tannic, with a nice fruit focus, scraping minerality, graphite, dark chocolate, tobacco, and smoke. Lovely! Drink from 2024 until 2031. (tasted May 2022) (in San Jose, CA & Paris, France) (ABV = 13.5%)