The 2024 vintage in Saint-Émilion
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 Saint-Émilion. 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.
Blend of the 2024 vintage
- 65 % Merlot
- 20 % Cabernet franc
- 15 % Cabernet-sauvignon
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2024 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 65 % merlot, 20 % cabernet franc, 15 % cabernet sauvignon — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2024 sheet
- 13.61 % vol.Alcohol
- 25.82 hl/haYield
- 26 yrsVine age
Winemaking
Temperature-controlled stainless-steel vats. Malolactic fermentation in barrels.
Ageing
58% new oak barrels and 42% one-year-old barrels.
Terroir
Covering 34 hectares, the soils are extremely varied:
• Sand and clay-sand with iron pan between 60 and 80 cm.
• Gravel-sand.
• Sandy-clay.
An offer on Château Monbousquet 2024
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Texts and documents 2024
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Visuals
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