2024 L'If

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2027!
Delivery until Fall 2027!

Love the aromatics here, and vibrant ruby colour, this is a real success and bright spot in the vintage, one to look out for, fragrant, tomato leaf, peony, lilac, raspberry fruits, lots of energy and delicate juice, not a powerhouse but skilful and early to medium drinking. 3.37 ph. Harvest 4 to 8 October, really held on to push for maturity. 30% new oak, even after sorting they are at 39hl/h yield here on these clay-limestone soils. Touch of chaptilsation and saignée, showing that even with waiting til October to harvest these things were needed.
92/100 Jane Anson

(Saint-Émilion; 85% Merlot; 15% Cabernet Franc; pH 3.37; 13% alcohol; parcels next to Troplong Mondot and also from Puyblanquet; a final yield of 39 hl/ha after the all-important densimetric sorting; bleeding of the tanks reduced the final production by around 15 %; a little chaptalisation to raise the alcohol from 12.5%; picked at the start of October in three days; tasted with Jacques Thienpont at Le Pin). The Cabernet Franc is very beautiful here. Intense dark berry fruits. Acacia and graphite. A touch of grated chocolate and dark cherry. A little hint of violet too. This is gracious, full and constructed around quite a dense but compact lozenge-shaped core of cool dark berry fruits. It’s not too ample, accentuating the sense of impact. The calcaire tannins are very delicate and this is much more lush and plush than most plateau-based wines in the vintage.
92-94/100 Colin Hay; The Drinks Business

Deep garnet-purple colored. Needs a little shaking to wake up notes of black raspberries & kirsch, followed by hints of dusty soil, dried herbs, and crushed rocks. The light to medium-bodied palate is lively and fresh with zippy red berry flavors and fine-grained tannins, finishing with a fruity lift.
91-93/100+ Lisa Perrotti-Brown; The Wine Independent