2025 Pomerol
1.5l
The 2025 Clinet was the earliest picking ever, from September 4, and aged in 60% new oak plus 40% one-year-old barrels. Vintages now have a little more Cabernet Sauvignon, as a hectare of Merlot was uprooted. Now this has a delightful nose, perhaps the most elegant and refined that I have encountered at this stage: vivid red cherry, raspberry and wild strawberry scents, neatly embroidered oak, more floral in style. The palate is medium-bodied with chiselled, fine tannins, bright and tensile, exquisite focus, with a peacock's tail on the finish. Quite crystalline on the finish, this is a Clinet that I would like in my cellar. Or at the dinner table. Or in my glass. There are now two wines to taste at Clinet since their acquisition of Lécuyer. “The 35 mm of rain on August 20, plus subsequent showers, really changed the landscape from Andalusian to Irish,” owner Ronan Laborde told me. That’s a neat way of conveying this drastic shift. “We ended up with around 14% alcohol. The yield was the lowest since 2003, 34 hl/ha at harvest, which was actually above average for Pomerol. (Vinous, Neal Martin)
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