Chateau Enclos Tourmaline 2020

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. Needs five to six years of bottle age. Try after 2027."

JEB DUNNUCK: "The 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. Tasted twice."

THE WINE CELLAR INSIDER: "Deeply colored, this is a wine perfectly balanced between its intensity, opulence, concentration is flamboyant character. The nose, with its open display of flowers, chocolate, licorice, espresso, spice, dark red pit fruits and truffles is intoxicating. But, that is only the start. It is the velvety, opulent, richness with cashmere tannins and its wealth of sweet, ripe, fruits, chocolate, and spice that steal the show! The luxurious finish hits all the right notes and keeps on going. The only problem is finding any as the production of this 100% Merlot wine is only 200 cases produced. So, if you want it, jump on it, prices are not going to be lower. Drink from 2025-2050."

WEINWISSER: "100 % Merlot, 14.7 vol% Alkohol, 32 hl/ha, pH 3.67, 100 % neue Barriques, Produktion 2'400 Flaschen. Das schwärzeste Purpur des Tages mit undurchsichtiger Mitte und zartem lila Rand. Konzentriertes Bouquet mit Wildkirsche, parfümiertem Pfeifentabak und Schlehensaft. Im zweiten Ansatz zartes Veilchenparfüm, dunkle Schokotrüffel und Lakritze. Am dichten Gaumen mit cremiger Textur, engmaschigem Tannin Korsett, betörender Extraktfülle und muskulösem Körper. Im katapultartigen Finale ein Korb mit schwarzen Beeren, Palisander und tiefschürfender Mineralik. Die Rechnung geht für dieses Fruchtmonster auf!"

THE WINE ADVOCATE: "A broad, ripe, expressive wine, the 2020 Enclos Tourmaline offers up aromas of cherries and plums mingled with licorice and toasty new oak, followed by a medium to full-bodied, expansive, fleshy palate. This is a rich, broad-shouldered wine from holdings on the plateau respectively located between Le Pin and Trotanoy, opposite Clinet, and opposite the château of La Fleur-Pétrus."

FALSTAFF: "Tiefdunkles Rubingranat, opaker Kern, violette Reflexe, zarte Randaufhellung. Tabakig, reife Herzkirschen, feine dunkle Waldbeerfrucht, zart nach Nougat und Kräutern. Mittlere Komplexität, rote Kirschen, frisch strukturiert, integrierte Tannine, feiner Schokoladetouch im Finale, facettenreicher Speisenbegleiter."

DECANTER: "A consistent estate, this has powerful dark fruits - damson and bilberry, good spice and plenty of length. Enjoyable stuff from Peter Kwok's Vignoble K."