WTN: Fleur de Boüard 08 nicer than expected.

2008 La Fleur de Boüard - France, Bordeaux, Libournais, Lalande de Pomerol (5/15/2015)
I am confused about the cuvées coming out of this estate. The one which I have just drunk is labelled La Fleur de Bouärd, without "Château", just as shown in the pic on this CT page. There is a superior cuvée Le Plus de la Fleur de Boüard, also without "Château". I have also read that there is an intermediate cuvée Château la Fleur de Boüard but I can see no confirmation of that on the estate's website. Can anyone clarify?

This wine was much better at this 7 year stage than I feared given that its estate's owner is a Parker loved modernist and it sees 75% new oak. Colour was almost black and very opaque. The nose showed some rich Merlot fruit (80% of blend) but with a compensating lively edge, hints of cedar and no jamminess. The medium/full bodied palate showed good depth of dark fruit, some lightly caramelised complexity, lively acidity, a polished patina and a liqueur tinged, ripe tannic backbone. Kudos to Boüard for avoiding exaggeration and producing a well balanced wine. Good.

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I guess that I would like this wine less in richer years such as '03, '05 or '09.

pretty sure there are only the 2 cuvees of La Fleur de Bouard, the one labelled Ch. LFdB in CT doesn't actually have Chateau on front label. It's the primary wine, Le Plus is the luxury cuvee. Ch. La Fleur St Georges acts as the second wine, and I think is the historic/official name of the property.

[David M. Bueker]

I have worked through a large number of bottles of both the 2000 and 2001 Fleur du Bouard. I was not knowledgable about modernists when I bought them, but they have also turned out very well.

I am not aware of any cuvée with "chateau" in the name.