Château Malartic-Lagravière 2024

Critic scores

• James Suckling95-96
• Vinous93-95
• Jeb Dunnuck92-94
• Decanter93

The 2024 vintage in Pessac-Léognan

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 Pessac-Léognan. 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

"s

out with classic blackberries and red

currant notes plus hints of pencil

shavings, fragrant earth, and

Sichuan pepper. The light to

medium-bodied palate is lightly

chewy and refreshing with red berry

and herbal flavors leading to a

savory finish.

Lefigaro.fr – Ella Lister / Béatrice

Delamotte – May 2025

91.5

Smoky white pepper mingles with

ripe red fruit in a generous, refined

nose, fairly

warm. The wine reveals itself as fine,

elegant, finely chiselled on the palate, with

delicate fruit and shyly generous

notes on the finish" - Le Figaro

Blend of the 2024 vintage

Figures from the 2024 sheet

• 19 hl/haYield
• 28 yrsVine age
• 210,000 bottlesProduction

Winemaking

Small truncated-cone wooden vats, temperature-

controlled double-walled stainless steel tanks

Ageing

Early blending, traditional ageing

on fine lees in French oak barrels, 50% new

oak.

Terroir

Château Malartic-Lagravière lies on a high terrace deeply cut by the Eau Blanche stream and its tributaries. It is formed, to a depth of 8 metres, of gravel islets dating from the Quaternary era. While the gravel layer provides excellent drainage at the surface, the subsoil of shelly limestone, made up of fossils from warm seas, together with veins of clay, retains a substantial water reserve. This ensures a perfect water supply to the vine, even in the most severe droughts. A highly permeable soil, optimal sunshine and reduced sensitivity to climatic variation are all eminently favourable factors.