2021 Château Lafleur Grand Village Bordeaux Supérieur Rouge

Jacques and Sylvie Guinaudeau manage the Grand Village vineyards together with the team also responsible for the vineyards at Château Lafleur (Pomerol). Their son Baptiste and his wife Julie are now also helping to achieve Grand Village's goal: slowly transforming an old factory into a top winery. The team brings the knowledge and skills of one of the best châteaux from Pomerol. It's no surprise that Grand Village's wines are spectacular.

After manual picking and rigorous selection, vinification takes place in a traditional manner. First, the grapes undergo a short soaking period, followed by the traditional alcoholic fermentation of 3 weeks in oak barrels. The grapes are then pressed and the young wine is transferred to largely new oak barriques for malolactic fermentation and maturation for a period of 10 months, after which the wine is bottled unfiltered.

The Grand Village Bordeaux Superieur is a blend of Merlot & Cabernet Franc. The wine has a deep ruby red color. In the nose we smell notes of blackcurrants and plums, a hint of roasted red pepper, juniper berries and laurel. The taste palette contains ripe small red black fruit and dried herbs, which are accompanied in the aftertaste by clearly present but ripe tannins. Very beautiful, elegant, pure blackberry fruit with fine acidity on the finish. In the vinification of Lafleur and Grand Village, Guinaudeau is advised by Petrus' former cellar master, Jean Claude Berrouet. Winemaking is also the responsibility of the Château Lafleur team. Keep a close eye on these wines - they have an unprecedented good price/quality ratio and let's hope they don't follow Lafleur in terms of price. Top rating for a wine in this price range from Parker and Suckling, but anyway, this also comes from a beautiful 2019. Parker writes: "......Is there a better value in contemporary Bordeaux than Grand Village?"