Appy Hour: Cult Right Bank 2019!

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.

95 Points – Decenter “La Fleur Morange’s 2019 is just on the right side of unfussy, giving poise and juice and a sense of the vineyard. Floral notes, raspberry and blackberry fruits fill the mid palate and give texture and depth, punctuated with blasts of saffron and cinnamon spice. Excellent. Even with a low yield of 20hl/ha this has air in between the tannins, and should be ready in six to eight rather than 10 years, but still with great ageing potential. Drink 2025-2038.”