2020 Enclos Tourmaline, Pomerol
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Jeb Dunnuck
Reviewed March 2023The 2020 Enclos Tourmaline comes from a 1-hectare parcel previously owned by Château La Patache before being purchased by Hong Kong-based financier Peter Kwok in 2012. This parcel is located directly across from Château Clinet and is 100% Merlot planted in classic Pomerol clay soils. It's an insanely good 2020, revealing a deep ruby/purple hue as well as notes of black raspberries, cassis, toasted spices, iron, and flowery incense. Deep, full-bodied, plush, and wonderfully textured, with ripe tannins, this blockbuster beauty brings incredible richness and intensity yet is seamless, elegant, and graceful. It's a true “Wow” Pomerol. It already offers pleasure today yet should benefit from 3-5 years of bottle age and cruise in cold cellars over the following two decades. It's clearly in the same realm as the 2019, 2018, and 2016.
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Professional Reviews
97
James Suckling
This is pure merlot, with black chocolate, bark, black truffle, ripe plum, and violets. Some black olives. This is very structured and linear with super fine tannins that run very, very long. Dense silky texture. Less than 3,000 bottles made. 1.1 hectares in total.
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The Wine Independent
The deep garnet-purple colored 2020 Enclos Tourmaline is quite closed to begin. After coaxing, it explodes with baked plums, blackberry pie, and boysenberry preserves scents, followed by wafts of tar, licorice, and lavender. Full-bodied, the palate is laden with bright, juicy black fruits, supported by plush tannins, finishing long and perfumed.
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Jane Anson
Seriously impressed with Pomerol in 2020, and this is another easy to love bottle. Plenty of grip, cocoa bean, espresso, crushed rocks, valvet tannins, no SO2 addition until after fermentation, 1.2ha, harvested entirely on September 16. Good stuff from Vignobles K. 100% new oak that comes through in texture rather than anything overblown,
Notes
92+ Neal Martin for Vinous: "The 2020 Enclos Tourmaline has an opulent bouquet with cassis, blueberry and violet scents, perhaps just missing the delineation of some of the top tier Pomerols. The palate is medium-bodied with quite firm tannins, pure black fruit laced with rosemary and truffle, white pepper emerging towards the finish that is slightly candied. Thoroughly enjoyable, but it needs 4-5 years in bottle." (12/2022)
Details
| Origin | Pomerol, Bordeaux, France |
|---|---|
| Type/Varietal | Merlot |
| SKU | 1686408 |