2025 La Conseillante

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2028!
Delivery until Fall 2028!

(Pomerol; 87% Merlot; 10% Cabernet Franc; 3% Cabernet Sauvignon; a final yield of 30 hl/ha; pH 3.66; 13.5% alcohol; tasted with Marielle Cazeaux at La Conseillante). Immediately we are the realm of greatness. We have archetypal La Conseillante florality. This is very beautiful - with peony and violet, a little lily of the valley and a little rose petal. The floral notes really wrap themselves around the blueberries drawing out the glorious cedary notes. Haunting in its beauty. Calming. Intimate. I love the parfumier's essences of violets and rose petals reinfocing those first floral notes as the wine starts to inhale and relax in the glass. The is the first year of the integration of the Cabernet Sauvignon into the final blend and it reinforces the impression of the deeo, dark core. Succulent, sumptuous, so gracious and very layered - some way between silk and cashmere. This has a lovely ample frame and is the most bourgignon of the grand plateau Pomerols. Complete, brilliantly poised and so juicy and fresh. A wine of an incredible harmony. I've not tasted a better La Conseillante and I honestly didn't expect to be writing that in this vintage.
98-100/100 Colin Hay

Tasting Château La Conseillante 2025 inevitably brings to mind the 2022 vintage. Both shaped by extreme heat and dryness, yet each shows an unexpected vibrancy. Thanks to two timely rainfalls, 26 mm on August 20 and 22 mm on August 29, 2025 appears more juicy and agile than 2022, with acidity that cuts through more precisely. Bayberry and black cherry burst one after another on the palate, releasing abundant juice. Notes of licorice, Sichuan pepper, and star anise are interwoven throughout, adding layers of complexity. Then comes the violet, like a lace skirt catching the light, rising and drifting with effortless grace. Even as it expresses such grace and finesse, Château La Conseillante retains a firm structural core beneath the surface, a clear reflection of its gravelly-clay plateau terroir and the defining backbone of top Bordeaux. This is exactly the Pomerol I had hoped to find in 2025. The moment you meet it, you find yourself completely under its spell.
98-100/100 Alexandre Ma

Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2025 La Conseillante waltzes out of the glass with fragrant notes of peonies, black cherries, and juicy blueberries, leading to hints of licorice, dark chocolate, and menthol with wafts of cardamom and rose oil. The medium-bodied palate is very graceful and intense with lovely tension and fine-grained tannins supporting the shimmery black and blue fruit, finishing long and perfumed. Simply stunning! The blend is 87% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc, and 3% Cabernet Sauvignon. The alcohol is 13.5% and the pH is 3.66. It is aging in French oak barrels, 70% new.
96-98/100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown

Austere on the opening, takes a beat then shows a creamy character as it opens. In colour, like so many you will find a vivid ink, followed by traces of gourmet cocoa bean, damson, chalk, rose petal, slate and crayon. Clay and gravel soils here have been worked organically and biodynamically for many years, 70% new oak for ageing, 3.66ph. Overall harvest August 28 to September 17. 30hl/h yield. Marielle Cazeaux director. A clear contender for an upscore in bottle.
95/100 Jane Anson