CHATEAU LAFLEUR 1978 Stock: 3046 Once again, the wine of the vintage, along with La Mission Haut Brion, the 1978 Lafleur is a burly wine that has just turned the corner and has developed into a truly amazing wine. Very rare and amazing! "More and more the 1978 Lafleur is looking like one of the two or three finest wines of the vintage, along with La Mission-Haut-Brion and Latour. This dark plum/garnet-colored wine exhibits a knock-out nose of black cherry fruit intermixed with licorice, minerals, cedar, and spice. Medium to full-bodied, with powerful tannin remaining, this highly extracted wine is atypical for the 1978 vintage. It is a weighty, broad-shouldered, muscular, virile 1978 that is just beginning to reveal secondary nuances and complexity. I have always thought this wine could develop along the lines of the 1966, and I am more convinced than ever that it is the seventies clone of that vintage. Anticipated maturity: 2000-2020." 93 points R. Parker Net Price. Limited Availability. n/a