2020 Lafleur
France
Pomerol
Bordeaux
Red
54% Cabernet Franc, 46% Merlot (2023 vintage)
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“There is so much to say,” said Omri Ram, who often has much to say at Château Lafleur, accompanied by Baptiste Guinaudeau. “It was a great vintage for Domaine Lafleur as we never had quality across the range of our six wines. The vintage is definitely a weirdo, unique in many ways, though we now have some experience with this new type of vintage. Until 2015, what you might call the “recent classical era” there was a maritime climate and once in a while, there would be a solar season, or an extreme vintage with heatwaves, or extremely cool weather like 2013. Then from 2016 we have had a new type of solar vintage in odd years like 2017 and 2019 that are not necessarily easy, but have no surprises during the season. Then we have even vintages like 2016, 2018 and 2020 that are two or three different seasons [contained] in one wine. They are more complex. They are seasons that you have to navigate and where you cannot deviate.
“We had no winter as there are above average temperatures, 2-3°C above normal, which has a strong impact,” Guinaudeau continued. “There was an early start to the growth cycle with some exposure to frost, so we protected Lafleur and Grand Village with smudge pots and wind turbines. Then, there was three times the rainfall between mid-May to mid-June and we had to avoid mildew. We had never seen so much rain - we had to spray at night. You have to use those windows of dryness, using small caterpillars in the vineyard, since the ground was so saturated. We didn’t lose anything in the end to mildew. The flip [in the weather] in 2016 took four weeks, whereas in 2020 it took just a couple of weeks. The vines were lazy. They were not in shape like in 2019, so we started monitoring the water stress, getting the vines into shape by pruning the canopy, cutting shoots so that the vines transpire less, also continuing to work the soil. We navigated the heatwave thanks to 25-30mm of rain before the harvest. At harvest, the conditions were great and we could harvest exactly when we want, not panicking if we had to wait, picking at the end of a cool cycle, observing temperatures. We picked early in the morning, maintaining a rule of no longer than 30 minutes between vine and vat, so we don’t need cooling units. We started the white on 25 August and the reds on 4 September, finishing the Merlot around 18 September, Bouchet [Cabernet Franc] at the end of September. The berries were small, but not as small as 2010 and 2018. They were back to normal size.”
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