May 16, 2025
Rauzan Segla 2024 - Ben's personal pick of the vintage
2024 Rauzan-Segla with -20% discount to 2023
After a week of tasting the 2024’s down in Bordeaux, our founder Ben declared "if there was one wine I would add to my personal collection without a doubt, it would be Rauzan”. Here we are, the release is here and it does not disappoint.
95-98 Points - Antonio Galloni
“The 2024 Rauzan-Ségla is magnificent. One of the top wines of the Left Bank, Rauzan-Ségla possesses tremendous textural density and mind-blowing balance. Dark fruit, lavender, spice, licorice and new leather are all dialed up in a potent, layered Margaux that offers stunning harmony and incredible purity. At this stage, Rauzan-Ségla is one of the wines of the vintage in Bordeaux. Elegant yet powerful, the 2024 is simply magnificent.”
Rauzan-Ségla is one of Margaux’s great historic estates—ranked alongside Chateau Margaux and Palmer at the top of the appellation. A Second Growth in the 1855 Classification, it combines noble pedigree with modern precision. Under the ownership of Chanel since 1994 and the direction of Nicolas Audebert, Rauzan-Ségla has soared, producing wines of elegance, depth and refinement. Its deep gravel terroir yields Cabernet-led wines that age gracefully and speak clearly of Margaux finesse.
Rauzan-Ségla 2024 is one of the standout wines of the Left Bank this year, combining elegance, precision and remarkable purity. A seductive yet structured Margaux, it offers a bouquet of dark fruit, sweet cherry, rose petal and graphite. The estate’s first certified organic vintage, it shows great finesse, refined tannins and energy.
One of the top performances on the left bank, Rauzan-Selga 2024 coming in with a -20% discount to 2023 is a no brainer buy for us. We can’t recommend it enough. The wine carried an incredible tension and flair that we fell in love with. It’s sexy, seductive and we’re adding it to our personal cellars and recommend that you should too.
Rauzan-Segla 2024
€56* In Bond per bottle
95-98 Points | Vinous - Antonio Galloni
The 2024 Rauzan-Ségla is magnificent. One of the top wines of the Left Bank, Rauzan-Ségla possesses tremendous textural density and mind-blowing balance. Dark fruit, lavender, spice, licorice and new leather are all dialed up in a potent, layered Margaux that offers stunning harmony and incredible purity. At this stage, Rauzan-Ségla is one of the wines of the vintage in Bordeaux. Elegant yet powerful, the 2024 is simply magnificent. Tasted four times.
95-97 Points | The Wine Independent
Deep garnet-purple colored. Strides confidently out of the glass with classic black currants and red currant scents, leading to a core of cedar chest, underbrush, and damp soils, plus a touch of red roses. The medium-bodied palate is vibrant with exquisitely ripe tannins and beautifully knit tension framing the red and black berry layers, finishing long and fragrant. This is a finished blend, completed 2 months ago.
18.50+ Points | Matthew Jukes
It is funny how communes gather their vintage reputations from the whole, not individual Châteaux. In 2024, Margaux is one of the less exciting places to shop, and yet, alongside the remarkable wines from Palmer and Margaux itself, there are some solid performers, which you can read about in my comprehensive report. There is no hurry, I suspect, to load up with these peripheral wines, as stocks are unlikely to run dry any time soon. But there is one shining light. An exception. A wine that slots in neatly alongside the aforementioned cosmonauts, hovering high over the expectant throng below. Rausan-Ségla is fast-cementing its reputation as a staggeringly impressive wine and one of considerable detail, beauty and, dare I say it, genuine qualité prix. Refined, intricately detailed and reassuringly firm on the finish, this is a fascinating and involving wine, and it looks set to break the mould for the vintage, offering a wine that will flatter in its youth but will undoubtedly improve incrementally with age and perhaps make two decades and more! While the Cabernet component falls short of 2/3 involvement, this variety stands proud in the glass with terrific concentration and majesty. The silhouette is unquestionably classical, resolutely medium-weight and spellbindingly intense without ever feeling muscular or brittle. Combine these traits with stunning potential on account of the beautifully toned tannins, and you have an unmissable combination of characteristics.
95 Points | Decanter, Georgina Hindle
Cherry stone on the nose, rose, violet, strawberry and red cherry. Chewy and well textured, filling but gentle, the tannins are exceptional and the freshness is so well balanced with the fruit. So sophisticated, confident, smooth and utterly compelling. I love it, round, soft with lifted acidity that gives the tang with some liquorice on the finish. Energy and focus with real succulence. Still not a big wine, but this has plenty of style and refinement and a feeling of happiness about it. 0.5% Cabernet Franc completes the blend. Ageing 50% new barrels for 18 months. 55% production. 3.7pH.
94 Points | Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux, Jane Anson
Inky colour here, one of the deepest in the appellation, lovely precision, great quality, the cool spirit of the vintage comes through in the sappy fruit, blue rather than black in character if not in colour, with black tea, espresso, chalk, lots of finesse, and still delivers flesh through the mid palate, with a touch of bitter cocoa bean on the finish. 22% press wine, 50% new oak, 3.7ph. This is the first organic certified vintage. 30hl/h yield, 55% of production in the main estate wine.
Fine Wine Library:
2024 was Rauzan’s first vintage as certified organic which is a testament to the work they have been doing in the vineyard. Rauzan-Segla’s style is usually seductive and sexy and the 2024 does not deviate from this. Great weight, serious structure balanced out by aromas of berry confit, sweet cherries and a feminine floral seductiveness. We loved the wine and it’s the one wine we will without a doubt be adding to our personal collections.