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La Conseillante 2024
Standard - 75cl
ETA: +2 years
- Vintage2024
- ColourRed
- ProducerChateau La Conseillante
- CountryFrance
- RegionBordeaux
- Sub RegionPomerol
- DesignationAOP
- Bottle SizeStandard - 75cl
- ABV13.5
- LWIN10087462024
Wine Critic Reviews
Marielle Cazaux was typically frank about the ruthless sorting and elimination of sub-standard fruit she and her team carried out in 2024. A Densilys bath was used at La Conseillante, and the result was that 20% of ‘garbage’ was thankfully left out of this magnificent wine. The result is a simply jaw-dropping creation, with such harmony and poise that they decided to blend it very early in its life! This wine was physically combined on the 15th of January, and the 70% new oak plays a stunning role here, providing the stage and its astoundingly detailed tenon and mortise joints, which form the perfect platform on which this wine performs. It is not often that I sing about the process of élévage, but it is electrifying here. Approximately half the normal production was made at La Conseillante, and this historically low yield of only 21600 bottles will most likely become known as this vintage’s gold dust, such is the class and breeding of this wine. As you will know, if you have scoured my 2024 En Primeur notes, there are very few wines that have approached the 20-mark. This is one of the most likely to elevate to perfection if the élévage curve continues uninterrupted.
- Reviewer Name: Matthew Jukes
The 2024 La Conseillante is shaping up to be one of the wines of the vintage. Vertical and explosive, with spectacular depth, the 2024 is an eye-opening wine, with regard to both the potential of the property and the vintage. In 2024, La Conseillante separates itself from the pack by a wide margin. It may ultimately not merit the very highest of scores, but it will almost certainly come close. Dark blue fruit, violet, spice, new leather, menthol and licorice stain the palate all the way through the creamy finish. Conseillante is a very serious wine. Technical Director Marielle Cazaux made all the right choices in a very challenging year in which yields were reduced by 50% in the field and then through strict selection in the cellar. Tasted two times.
- Drinking Window: 2034 - 2054
- Reviewer Name: Antonio Galloni
Coming from minuscule yields of just 22 hectoliters per hectare, the 2024 Château La Conseillante is based on 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, aging in 70% new barrels. It offers a beautiful perfume of red, blue, and black fruits intertwined with spring flowers, violets, tobacco, and spicy wood. Medium to full-bodied, it has a seamless, pure, and remarkably layered mouthfeel, with outstanding length. This is a stunning achievement in 2024 and a wine readers will love to have in the cellar.
- Reviewer Name: Jeb Dunnuck
A really refined Conseillante. Medium-bodied with very fine, high-quality tannins that run the length of the wine, giving a subtle drive and energy. You almost want to drink it now. Pretty is the word. 80% merlot and 20% cabernet franc.
This La Conseillante captivates with perfumed aromatics of ripe, concentrated dark fruit, soft spices, and dark chocolate. Plump and juicy, it’s sleek, joyous, and fun, with strawberry and cranberry fruit. The texture is light yet fresh, with purity, lift, and exceptional balance. Energetic and focused, it has a touch of sexiness and creaminess, not weight. Bitter orange and salty stone notes add depth. Succulent, clean, and charming, it tapers slightly but remains super bright and accessible, with a touch of chew. Soft, polished tannins, 3.57pH, blended since January, ageing in 70% new oak and 30% second-fill barrels. Great stuff.
- Reviewer Name: Georgina Hindle
Deep garnet-purple colored. Slowly unfurls to reveal wonderfully pure notes of wild blueberries and black raspberries, giving way to hints of camphor, violets, pencil lead, and black olives. The medium-bodied palate delivers a solid structure of firm, grainy tannins and lively acidity to frame the crunchy black fruit flavors, finishing long and mineral-laced.
- Reviewer Name: Lisa Perrotti-Brown
Dark cherry in colour, vivid, the fruits have beautiful clarity on the aromatics and the opening notes, and density through the palate. Velvety texture with lift, cocoa bean, espresso, damson, excellent quality. Michel Rolland consultant., 100% new oak, 85% of production in La Conseillante. One of the success stories in Pomerol. Harvest 20 September to 4 October, 30hl/ha when it came in from the vineyard, 22hl/h after density sorting. 3.57ph,
- Reviewer Name: Jane Anson
The 2024 La Conseillante was picked over six days at 22 hl/ha between September 20 and October 4. This has a clean and focused bouquet, with quite pure scents of blackberry, boysenberry and light blueberry. This is clearly without the flamboyance of a warming vintage, yet with ample freshness and delineation. The palate is medium-bodied and balanced, with slightly grainy yet fine tannins. This is a La Conseillante that wisely stays within its means. Quite strict on the finish, it's a nimble Pomerol that will drink earlier than say, the 2020, 2022 or 2023.
- Drinking Window: 2028 - 2048
- Reviewer Name: Neal Martin