Château Gazin 2024

Critic scores

• Decanter95
• James Suckling93-94
• Vinous91-93
• Wine Enthusiast90

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

Fresh, balanced, approachable, with delicate notes of black fruit and menthol. The palate is fairly round and ripe, with pleasant tannins.

Blend of the 2024 vintage

Figures from the 2024 sheet

• 100,000 bottlesProduction

Winemaking

Alcoholic fermentation takes place in small concrete vats, separated by variety and by plot; the juice and skins are then left to macerate for two to three weeks.

Ageing

Château Gazin 2024 will benefit from ageing

of 14 to 16 months in barrel, comprising 50% new

barrels and 50% once-used barrels.

Terroir

The vineyard of Château Gazin covers an area of 26 ha in a single block, situated on the high terrace of the Pomerol terroir. The terroir of Château Gazin is made up of Günzian gravels at the surface and, in the subsoil, blue and green clays containing iron oxides (crasse de fer). These clays (smectites) provide the vine with a regular and moderate supply of water, a characteristic of the great terroirs. The clay-gravel subsoil of the Pomerol plateau makes up the essential part of Château Gazin’s terroir. The vineyard is planted with 90% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Sauvignon and 3% Cabernet Franc. The average age of the vines is 35 years.