2024 Larcis Ducasse

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2027!
Delivery until Fall 2027!

Good grip, plenty of character and depth through the palate, freshly cut herbs, blueberry and blackcurrant, savoury with floral character. Harvest 24 September to 7 October. 50% new oak, Gratiot-Atimane family.
94/100 Jane Anson

(Saint-Émilion; 85% Merlot; 15% Cabernet Franc; a final yield of 41 hl/ha at the picking date but reduced by c. 17% with densimetric selection, no coulure but an extended floraison; aging in oak, 50% of it new; 13.5% alcohol; tasted at the UGC press tasting at the Cité du Vin and re-tasted at the property with David Suire who has taken on the direction here since last year). The wonderful blue clay in the terroir plays a crucial role here as does the Southern exposure on the Côte Pavie. Very pretty and very refined, much more so than it used to be, this is poised and elegant, cool-scented and intense in its combination of incense and violet, rose petal and myrrh accompanying and enrobing and enrichening as it does so the intensely dark berry fruits. There’s graphite by the nuclear reactor core load. But everything here is so refined. There’s cedar on the palate, too, above all with gentle aeration in the mouth. Gorgeous aromatically and brilliant in its purity, this is a wine that almost brings a tear to my eye. This transcends the vintage and shows the colossal potential of this exceptional terroir. The gentle grip and structuring touch of the calcaire tannins as the wine caresses the palate is sublime.
95-97/100 Colin Hay; The Drinks Business