Château La Conseillante 2024

Critic scores

• Vinous95-98
• Jeb Dunnuck95-97
• Wine Advocate94-96
• James Suckling95-96
• Decanter95

The 2024 vintage in Pomerol

Vintage benchmark: 87/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)

Vintage character: A difficult flowering and a wet summer reduced the harvest: light, aromatic wines, to be drunk early.

Overall reading of the year’s season across Pomerol. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.

Tasting

A magical vintage, 2024 is in many ways. If it has sometimes put the nerves of winegrowers to the test, it delights with its charm. Its aromatic profile, resolutely fruity, the softness of its tannins, its invigorating freshness and its very measured alcohol level make it a vintage designed for pleasure: full of creaminess, with a pleasant density, tasty and balanced. It assumes, in a word, a certain “classicism” very Pomerolais which should make it an attractive wine for all lovers, including over time.

Blend of the 2024 vintage

Figures from the 2024 sheet

• 22 hl/haYield
• 35 yrsVine age
• 50,000 bottlesProduction

Winemaking

Cold pre-fermentation maceration for 5 days Vatting for 28 to 30 days 5% of production in integral vinification

Ageing

70% in new French oak barrels 30% in wine barrels Estimated duration: 15 months

Terroir

The pattern of plots making up the property's 12 hectares, unchanged since 1871, allows La Conseillante to maintain its exceptional character. An average density of six thousand vines per hectare, constant attention and care adapted to the cultivation of the vine — the only guarantees of impeccable vine health — are a reminder that without quality fruit, wine is nothing. The terroir is composed of 60% grey clay and 40% sandy gravel, resting on red clay (crasse de fer).