The 2011 vintage in Pomerol
Vintage benchmark: 86/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A warm spring followed by a wet summer gave classic wines, best drunk relatively young.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Pomerol. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Tasting
Château CLINET 2011 displays an ink-purple colour.
Very exuberant and enchanting on the nose, it reveals aromas of wild raspberries and strawberries, together with blackberries and plums in syrup, mingling subtly with essence of vanilla and liquorice.
Silky and intense on the palate, its soft texture coats the freshly picked wild fruits sprinkled with spices.
The vintage
Spring’s extreme weather conditions caused concern that with such excessive heat this would be a tricky vintage to manage. In this particular climatic context, Château CLINET adapted its cultural strategy to make sure of an even ripening of the grapes.
Summer was without excessively hot weather which helped the maturity to proceed homogeneously.
The harvest was the earliest ever recorded at the property. It began on September 7, and finished with the legendary 75 year-old vines on the Pomerol plateau. Château CLINET continued its policy of picking plot by plot, at perfect phenolic ripeness, spreading out the 7 harvesting days along a time-line of 19 days.
Blend of the 2011 vintage
- 85 % Merlot
- 12 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 3 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2011 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 80 % merlot, 20 % cabernet sauvignon — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2011 sheet
- 51 yrsVine age
Ageing
55% new barrels, 45% one-wine barrels
Terroir
Autrefois rattaché aux vins de Saint-Emilion, Pomerol a su gagner seule ses lettres de noblesse depuis 1936, date à laquelle elle obtint son statut d'AOC. (Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée). D'une superficie inférieure à 800 ha, c'est la plus petite des grandes régions viticoles du Bordelais. Pomerol est aussi la seule des grandes appellations de la région à n'avoir jamais connu de classement hiérarchique. Campée sur la Rive Droite de la Dordogne, le climat y est plus chaud que dans le Médoc (Rive Gauche) et le sol plus frais et humide.
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