"89 Points - Stephen Tanzer, Vinous.com
Good full red. Aromas of blackberry, dark chocolate and licorice. Juicy and aromatic on the palate, with lovely acid cut to the sappy red cherry and spice flavors. In a distinctly bright, taut style, with serious tannins arriving late. Really stimulates the taste buds. Michel Lafarge, who had virtually no remaining wine to show, called 2011 "a classic year with good phenolic maturity at moderate sugar levels, like 1952." The wines should be drunk after the 2010s, he added. Reviewed March 2014"
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous.com;
Frederic Lafarge describes 2011 as a "classic vintage considering the early harvest.The wines show great precision of terroir, with low sugars and plenty of material.They're like the better vintages of the '80s."Veteran Michel Lafarge, whose experience with this domain goes back to 1949, compared 2011 to 1952 "in its material and suavity."Interestingly, Frederic finds the 2011s to be purer and more primary than the 2010s, and believes they will be better to drink after the '10s.
