2025 Trottevieille

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2028!
Delivery until Fall 2028!

(Saint-Émilion; 51% Cabernet Franc; 46% Merlot; 3% Cabernet Sauvignon; 13.5% alcohol; tasted at Trottevieille with Frédéric Castéra). You'd never guess that this is 100 per cent new oak. Sombre and incredibly poised, this is radiantly beautiful aromatically and certainly one of the most floral wines of the vintage. Subtle, delicate, with violet and iris, the rose petals of La Dame de Trottevieille, but not in the same quantities (though, as for La Dame, they grow and grow with aeration). A little damson, black cherry and blueberry, cassis with aeration in the mouth. Blood orange. Ample on the attack and cool to the core, this is incredibly fresh and the freshness is supremely well distributed across the entire length of the palate, vertically and horizontally too. Multi-dimensional, incredibly layered, with silken sheets interspersed with beady almost powdery, chalky tannins. This is already extremely accessible and divine in the mouth, but it's also a vin de garde that is capable of lasting 100 years. The best ever from here, quite possibly.
97-99/100 Colin Hay

Inky with violet edging, vibrant and concentrated, iris and wet stones, pumice, chamomile, peony, rose bud, this is an excellent wine that has a serious edge to it, tightly knitted down tannins that are plentiful, waves crushed mint, slow and steady progression through the palate, there are a ton of tannins here and plenty of ageing potential. Pumice stone finish, sucks the juice out before returning it in a gulp. Harvest September 4 to 19. 100% new oak, 27hl/h yields because lots of old vines. The estate will be making 130 bottles as usual of their 100% old vine Cabernet Franc, with the rest of these pre-Phylloxera vines going in here.
96/100 Jane Anson