2022, Château La Fleur Petrus, POMEROLBordeaux Blend: Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot (0. 5%) Run by the Moueix family since the 1950s and produces a wine that is always a classic of the appellation and keenly sought after. The 2022 blend is 96. 5% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc and 0. 5% Petit Verdot. The high point of the Mouiex portfolio this year is the beautiful 2022 La Fleur Ptrus, a wine that derives from a number of prime clay gravel parcels on Pomerol's plateau. Wafting from the

but I am fully on board

A very Cabernet nose with conspicuous graphite scents infusing the black fruit

The second wine of Roc de Cambes - from the young vines + a seperate parcel just outside the appellation

it nevertheless has balance

Nicely integrated tannins and long length

This is just elegance and finesse personified

A ripe and concentrated style with a light touch of oak

95 Jane Anson

great freshness and energy but with a deep core of flavour - layered and complex

with a more Left Bank feel than many

not grainy or ripe

An excellent wine that really over delivers - so well presented