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Deep Cover: Cult Right Bank 2020!
If you spent the $200 retail, it would sting, no matter how expansive your wine budget. But at $65 this deal is just about a buy one get TWO free!
Now, we could argue it’s worth $200. Next to a Cheval Blanc, an Ausone, or a Pavie it’s even a great value. That’s not hyperbole. Jancis Robinson raves that “tasting it blind in a line-up of 2005 red Bordeaux for Decanter magazine, the owner of fine wine traders Farr Vintners and I took it for Château Ausone and Pavie respectively…
Indeed, the initial pop and pour revealed something truly profound… a perfumed and aromatic beauty that boggles the mind when compared to a traditional Bordeaux. The wine exhibits the freshest as well as candied red and black fruits. There are minerals, earth, and a leather component as well, the kind you find in fancy cars equally exotic as this wine. Feel free to decant and let it breathe long, for blissful slow sipping over an entire evening.
Robert Parker explains the quality as “The well-known Claude Gros is the consulting oenologist at this small garagiste operation in St.-Émilion. The average age of the vines is … get this … 100 years!” while Gros was brought in late in 2002 and have overseen a steady rise in both quality and, alas, prices of La Fleur Morange since then.”
Meanwhile, as far as the market goes - these are UVPs. Unseen Vinous Phenomena. You won’t find it elsewhere. It simply DOES NOT EXIST in the US of A. Once this is gone it will continue to be so.
94+ Points – Jeb Dunnuck “Ripe black cherries, currants, chocolaty oak, spice, and iron nuances all emerge from the 2020 Château La Fleur Morange, a richly textured, concentrated 2020 with building tannins and a great finish. It has plenty of opulence and density but enough tannins to warrant 4-5 years of bottle age. It’s another terrific wine from this estate that’s located down on the lower plains of Saint-Emilion. Drink 2027-2043.”
What the Winery Says
2020 St.-Émilion Grand Cru
- Proprietor
- Jean-François Julien
- Varietals
- 70% Merlot and 30% Cabernet Franc
- Vintage
- 2020
- Alcohol
- 15.0%
- Appellation
- Saint-Emilion, Bordeaux
- Vineyard size
- 5 hectares (in 1990, 11 hectares today)
- Terroir
- Gravel on clay and old, deep, blue clay
- Aging
- 18 months
- Barrels
- 100% new French oak