1997 Chateau Lafleur Pomerol from this lot has the following scores - Falstaff Magazine 90 points, CellarTracker 90 points. This is the tasting note for 1997 Chateau Lafleur Pomerol from John Gilman - This recent tasting was the first time I had ever tried the 1997 Château Lafleur and the wine was excellent in quality and clearly transcendental of the overall level of the vintage. Our host, who shared the bottle, commented that it was structurally hard as nails when he first got around to opening a bottle around fifteen years of age, but it was starting to stir as it closes in on its twenty-fifth year in bottle. The bouquet is deep and black fruity, wafting from the glass in a mix of dark berries, black plums, cigar ash, a touch of tariness, dark soil tones, coffee grounds, plenty of smokiness and a hint of sealing wax in the upper register. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, focused and shows off pretty good mid-palate depth, with moderate tannins, fine length and grip and a well-balanced finish. This is not a great Lafleur by any stretch of the imagination, but a great 1997 and a really quite good drink.