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Le Pin 2002

RegionBordeaux
Subregion France > Bordeaux > Right Bank > Pomerol
ColourRed
TypeStill
Grape VarietyMerlot

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Tasting Notes

One of the candidates for the Pomerol of this challenging vintage, Le Pin’s 2002 boasts a deep plum/purple color in addition to sweet aromas of dried herbs, roasted coffee, chocolate, plums, and sweet cherries. This luscious offering possesses terrific fruit, medium body, low acidity, and a long, heady finish. Drink it over the next 12-15 years. It is an amazing wine for the vintage!

93
Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (158), April 2005

Tasted blind at Farr's 2002 Bordeaux tasting. An exotic, ripe bouquet with black cherries, dried orange peel and raspberry coulis with subtle tobacco notes developing with aeration. Superb clarity. The palate is rounded and sensuous, opening up with time, plush and generous with ripe strawberry, cassis and orange zest, but good structure underpinning everything. Great length and persistency, but only just out of the starting blocks. Tasted October 2009.

92
Neal Martin, RobertParker.com, October 2009

Drink 2010-18 Very savoury but jagged. Lots of acidity rather than gentle stuff. Mild cocoa with floral notes.Tasted 13th Oct 09.

17
Jancis Robinson MW, Farr Tasting, November 2009
96-
Farr Vintners, Farr Tasting, October 2009
87/89
Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (149), October 2003
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