Château Lafleur 1998Robert Parker This wine was incredibly tannic and backward from cask, but out of bottle it has shrugged off the excess tannin and seems to be developing far better than I thought it would. The color is dense ruby purple, and the wine shows notes of sweet kirsch and blackberry liqueur, with a liquid minerality and a hint of violets. The wine is full bodied, quite tannic, very dense and backward, but gorgeously concentrated, pure, and intense. This