Château La Lagune 2024

Critic scores

• James Suckling93-94
• Vinous91-93

The 2024 vintage in Haut-Médoc

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

Vintage character: A rainy spring and a difficult flowering reduced the crop; the dry October saved fine, light, easy-drinking wines.

Overall reading of the year’s season across Haut-Médoc. 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

Deep ruby colour with violet highlights. An intense, seductive nose of fresh red fruit, cherry and raspberry, lifted by floral notes and a hint of spice. The palate is supple and elegant, with fine, well-integrated tannins. The vintage’s natural freshness gives the wine a vibrant, easy-drinking profile, without heaviness. The finish is long and chiselled, with a fine mineral tension, true to the refined style of La Lagune.

Blend of the 2024 vintage

Figures from the 2024 sheet

• 13 % vol.Alcohol
• 16 hl/haYield

Winemaking

After a very meticulous triple manual sorting, completed by an optical sorting, the most beautiful berries are delicately sent to the vats for plot-by-plot vinification. The extraction of tannins and anthocyanins is carefully measured to obtain the most elegant wines. The final blend is made during ageing with the wines from the best plots.

Ageing

Château La Lagune is aged in French oak barrels, 50% of which are renewed every year. The wines are racked several times during their maturation, in order to eliminate the heavy lees and favour maturation on fine lees.

Terroir

The finesse of the Graves and the strength of the Médoc. The terroir of La Lagune is considered by the famous geologist René Pijassou as «the Médoc island model». The light gravel (pink, yellow and white quartz, calcite, agates) and silica diffuse the sunlight and help to give the Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot the grace, balance and finesse that characterise the wines of La Lagune.