2016 Chateau La Fleur Morange St Emilion

Dunnuck doesn’t price this 97-point 2016 vintage, but he priced the next highest-rated one, the 96-point 2009, at $150. And a famous online discounter shows this sold out at $200. The only other local store to have this is asking $99.99, and it’s $96.99 in Charlotte.

Dunnuck 97:

This tiny estate located down on the lower plain continues to produce a powerful, opulent style of wine. Their 2016 La Fleur Morange is another beauty, boasting full-bodied richness and serious concentration go with a monster bouquet of crème de cassis, spring flowers, rose petals, and ample sandy, loamy soil notes. It has some oak to integrate, a stacked mid-palate, beautiful tannins, and an awesome finish. Hats off to proprietors Jean François and Véronique Julien and consultant Claude Gros for a brilliant Saint-Emilion. Give bottles 2-4 years and enjoy over the following two decades.

I recognize that wine experts in blind tastings have mistaken this for Ausone (maybe because they knew it was a Saint-Emilion), but in its sheer massive richness and concentration – along with amazingly suave and velvety texture, this may resemble Petrus even more.

Except the 2016 Petrus (which rates only two points higher) sells for $6000.

And this earned the same score as the 2016 Cheval Blanc, at $1000!