Château Fleur Cardinale 2016

Jeannie Cho Lee

Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider

Andreas Larsson - Tasted

Pure and intense nose blending red and dark fruit with fine leather, dry spices, tobacco, not a lot of noticeable oak but nuanced and layered. The palate is dense and concentrated with a healthy freshness underneath, rich and unctuous fruit with a long spicy and broad finish.

Falstaff

Wine Enthusiast

Dense and full of dark fruits, this wine has a solid structure and big tannins. Smoky and ripe with juicy, opulent berry flavors, it offers power and concentration. The wine needs to soften over many years before it reaches its full potential. Drink from 2024.

VertdeVin

The nose is fruity, powerful, elegant and offers intensity, gourmandize and a beautiful finesse of the grain. It reveals notes of cassis, raspberry and small notes of fleshy small black fruits (blackberry…) associated with touches liquorice stick, green pepper as well as discreet toasted hints and an imperceptible hint of nutmeg/almond. The palate is fruity, well-balanced and offers juiciness, an acidulous frame, suavity, a beautiful precision/définition, a good structure, a fine tension as well as suavity. On the palate this wine expresses notes of fleshy/juicy blackberry, fleshy/juicy cassis and small notes of raspberry associated with touches of strawberry, cornflower, toasted as well as fine hints of liquorice, hazelnut, almond and chocolate on the finish/persistence. Tannins are elegant, fine and well-built.

Adrian van Velsen - vvWine.ch

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2016 Fleur Cardinale is medium to deep garnet-purple colored and bursts from the glass with crushed blackberries, mulberries and chocolate-covered cherries with hints of spice cake, dried herbs and fragrant soil. The palate is medium to full-bodied and wonderfully elegant with soft, rounded tannins and a great backbone of freshness, finishing perfumed.