92 points
"The 2021 Fleurie from the Loron family’s Château de Fleurie is a beautiful young wine. It is utterly classical in personality, offering up a vibrant bouquet of red and black cherries, cranberries, sweet stem tones, a lovely base of dark soil, woodsmoke and a topnote of fresh thyme. On the palate the wine is bright, full-bodied and nicely structured out of the blocks, with a fine core of fruit, excellent mineral undertow and grip, moderate tannins and a long, focused and very well-balanced finish. I would tuck this away in the cellar for at least a few years and let its secondary layers of complexity emerge, while those backend tannins relax a bit more. It is going to be excellent. 2025-2045."
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