La Fleur de Boüard 2015

The chocolate, meat and dark-berry character is impressive to this wine. Full body, round and soft tannins and a flavorful, clove-spiced finish. Just strength with balance. Drink in 2021.

Medium garnet-purple in color, the 2015 La Fleur de Bouard has a perfumed nose of violets and roses with a core of baked cherries, warm black raspberries, plums and spice box. The medium to full-bodied palate is soft and packed with fruit, finishing with an herbal lift. 2019 - 2032

Inky fragrance. Very round and syrupy on palate entry. Only just the right side of appetising. Dry finish. But all stops have been pulled out! Just a slightly hot end.
Drink 2022-2030

Deep ruby garnet in colour, the nose here is fleshy and ripe, full of plums, cherries and cinnamon. There is some smokiness in the background, but it is well integrated. The palate is broad and full, with generous sweet cherries and darker cassis too. There are notes of nutmeg and all spice that add to the succulence of the fruit. The tannins are soft and ripe, adding just the right level of grip. This velvet texture gives a smooth, plush finish that allows the dense fruit to shine through in tandem with pepper spice. Ready to drink now, or over the next 5+ years.

The 2015 La Fleur De Bouard is an awesome wine to seek out. Mostly Merlot, it offers a terrific bouquet of cassis and black cherries intermixed with lots of tobacco leaf and lead pencil notes. It’s medium to full-bodied, has beautiful purity of fruit, and sweet tannin, as well as a texture that just glides over the palate. It should keep for 10-15 years. 2018 - 2033

The fruit on the nose is fresh the start of the palate firm but there is mid sweetness the richness of ripe plums. Lighter towards the back minty with a bramble bilberry mix but it fills out on the finish with sweet ripe fruit. 2021-32

Made in comparatively large quantities, this is a very affordable and approachable red from
Hubert de Boüard and his team. Elegant, balanced and deftly oaked with fine tannins and
some grassy, graphite-like notes. Drink: 2020-26

Dense and powerful initially but with control coming in fairly quickly on the palate, this is a fine effort and a wine which
while exotically proportioned still retains some freshness on the finish.