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Château les Cruzelles
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2024
Château les Cruzelles (Lalande de Pomerol)
Chocolate, roses, and black cherries are your introduction in the perfume. On the palate, the wine is fresh, clean, pure, elegant, and refined, finishing with sweetness and lift in the cocoa, and cherry endnotes. You can enjoy this Pomerol look-alike on release if you prefer creamy, youthful fruits, or age it for its secondary characteristics. The wine blends 85% Merlot, with 15% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2027-2038. 91-93 Pts 525 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2025 |
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2023
Château les Cruzelles (Lalande de Pomerol)
Flowers, plums, cocoa, and black cherries show easily in the nose. Medium-bodied, elegant, and fresh, with energy, refinement, layers of sweet, cocoa-infused plums. The finish is creamy, vibrant, and fruity. You can enjoy this Pomerol look-alike on release if you prefer creamy, youthful fruits, or age it for its secondary characteristics. The wine blends 80% Merlot, with 20% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2026-2038. 92-94 Pts. 2,387 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2022
Château les Cruzelles (Lalande de Pomerol)
If you are seeking a fabulous Pomerol at a fair price, look no further. This gem rocks with the textures, concentration, and complexity of Pomerol. Chocolate-covered flowers, black raspberries, and plums, with a spicy note fill the perfume. The palate is where the action is, due to all of its multiple layers of, opulently-textured fruits. The finish puts all that together, adding length, purity, and energy, with a silky endnote. Drink from 2025-2045. 829 Views Tasted Mar 1, 2025Lush, soft, and creamy, the wine shows its layers of chocolately plums, black cherries, smoke, espresso, and licorice with ease. Fresh and silky are the words of the day here for what you enjoy on the medium-bodied, supple-textured palate, and in the finish. You can enjoy this Pomerol look-alike on release if you prefer its creamy, youthful fruits, or age it for its secondary characteristics. Drink from 2025-2040. 92-94 Pts. 3,242 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2021
Château les Cruzelles (Lalande de Pomerol)
Flowers, plums, black raspberries and mint leaf crowd into the nose. And the palate is even better with its soft, silky, vibrant and fresh core of black cherries and plums and that blast of dark chocolate that comes in at the end of the finish. Clearly the wine of the appellation this year, it is an amazing success for the vintage. Drink from 2024-2037. 1,121 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2024Medium-bodied, fresh, sweet, ripe, vibrant plums with a dash of chocolate mint on the nose and on the bright, crisp, soft-textured, chalky palate. The wine is a blend of 65% Merlot with 35% Cabernet Franc. The high portion of Cab Franc really works with the 2021 vintage. 13.5% ABV. Picking took place September 23-September 30. Drink from 2024-2037. 90-92 2,508 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
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2020
Château les Cruzelles (Lalande de Pomerol)
Flowers, chocolate, smoke, licorice and plummy nuances are all over the place here. On the palate, the wine is vibrant, silky, fresh, and most importantly, there is a beautiful sense of purity to the red pit fruits in the elegant, supple, chocolately finish. Drink from 2024-2040. 3,223 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023Dark ruby in color, the wine quickly expresses its plum, wet earth, chocolate, spice and licorice character. Lush, supple, fresh and loaded with opulent, sweet, dark red fruits, this silky, sensual wine offers length and lift. 92-94 Pts 4,680 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
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2019
Château les Cruzelles (Lalande de Pomerol)
Flowers, licorice, cocoa and earthy notes, along with black raspberries, plums and black cherries come through easily on the nose. The medium-bodied palate is soft, silky, refined and fresh, with loads of layered sweet fruit on the backend. Drink from 2023-2037. 3,594 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022Flowers, black raspberries, earthy cherries and nutty chocolate notes are in the nose. The palate, is filled with lusciously textured, sweet, ripe black plums and cocoa. The silky finish feels great. Produced from a blend of 90% Merlot with 10% Cabernet Franc, this could be the top wine produced from Les Cruzelles, a vineyard the late owner, Denis Durantou loved. 91-93 Pts 5,358 Views Tasted Jun 8, 2020 |
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2018
Château les Cruzelles (Lalande de Pomerol)
Flowers, licorice, dusty chocolate and sweet, silky plums are all over the place. Elegant, refined, fresh and vibrant, the silky finish is just great. You can enjoy this on release or age it for a few years for more complexity. 2,358 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021Earthy, forest aromas with leaf, mint, and cherries from start to finish, the wine is medium-bodied, soft, silky and perfect for early drinking, with its fresh, sweet, red plum attributes. 90-92 Pts 3,713 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2019 |
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2017
Château les Cruzelles (Lalande de Pomerol)
Soft, silky, juicy plums create a forward styled Romeo with earthy, dark red fruits and back notes of licorice. To be enjoyed on release, the wine was made from blending 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc. 2,580 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2018 |
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2016
Château les Cruzelles (Lalande de Pomerol)
Using 90% Merlot with 10% Cabernet Franc, this wine shows a rich, ruby color. On the nose, dreamy chocolate-covered black raspberries followed by dark juicy plums and just the right amount of cocoa and floral accents in the endnote. 5,429 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2015
Château les Cruzelles (Lalande de Pomerol)
Using 80% Merlot and more Cabernet Franc than usual at 20%, this wine has licorice, flowers, cocoa and black cherry notes in the nose. Soft in texture, there is a plush, roundness in the tannins, sweetness in the black fruits and a near prurient essence in the fixture that insures this vintage will deliver a lot of pleasure. 90-92 Pts 4,897 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2016 |
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2014
Château les Cruzelles (Lalande de Pomerol)
Dominated by Merlot with 10% Cabernet Franc, this wine is soft, forward and plumy with an open chocolate-covered, black raspberry finish. 89-90 Pts 4,158 Views Tasted Apr 24, 2015 |
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2013
Château les Cruzelles (Lalande de Pomerol)
With intriguing scents of tangerine, coffee, cherry and plum, there is a nice softness to the texture, finishing with sweet cherries, oak and cocoa. 88-90 Pts 2,640 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2014 |
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2012
Château les Cruzelles (Lalande de Pomerol)
Medium bodied, earthy, smoky, dark red fruits in an approachable style. 2,236 Views Tasted May 15, 2015Aged in 50% new French oak, the wine is blended from 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc. Fresh black cherry, cocoa, earth and coffee notes work well with the center of cherry and black raspberries. 87-89 Pts 3,058 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2013 |
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2011
Château les Cruzelles (Lalande de Pomerol)
Blending 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc, the wine is aged in 50% new oak. Black cherry, forest floor, pepper and spice, this is a soft, round, delicious red cherry-filled wine. 88-89 Pts 2,627 Views Tasted Apr 19, 2012 |
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2010
Château les Cruzelles (Lalande de Pomerol)
Les Cruzelles From a blend of 90% Merlot 10% Cabernet Franc, Denis Durantou produced a wine from Lalande de Pomerol that could compete with several much more expensive Pomerol wines. Jammy berries, licorice, plums and chocolate covered raspberries open to a soft textured, charming, elegant, plummy wine that should drink well early. 89-91 Pts 3,961 Views Tasted Apr 21, 2011 |
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2009
Château les Cruzelles (Lalande de Pomerol)
Forward in style, medium bodied, with ample notes of licorice, black cherry, earth and dark chocolate. The finish offers good freshness, round textures and sweet, black raspberries with a hint of cocoa powder. 3,240 Views Tasted Mar 11, 2013 |
