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[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] Lafon Rochet St Estephe ---- 6x75cl 89-91 - 87-89 91 92-94 -
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The 2024 Lafon-Rochet is sleek, elegant and polished, as it so often is. Silky tannins and lifted floral overtones are immediately alluring. Soft but persistent, with fine balance, the 2024 has a lot to offer. Punchy red/purplish fruit, blood orange, spice and new leather are beautifully delineated. There's a high percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon in this vintage, and yet it is the personality of site that speaks loudest. Lafon-Rochet is always a bit lithe. That quality is present in 2024, although a second sample showed more overt body. Tasted two times.

Score: 92 - 94 Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com Maturity: 2029-2044

The 2024 Lafon-Rochet offers up aromas of pipe tobacco, sweet berries and fresh herbs, followed by a medium-bodied, soft and open-knit palate.

Score: 87 - 89 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com

This is juicy, drawn out, balanced, elegant, showing lean black fruits laced with fennel and anis, plenty of slate tannins, just a little leafy on the finish. 3.67 pH. 40% new oak, highest proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon on record.

Score: 91 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2045

The 2024 Lafon-Rochet contains the highest amount of Cabernet Sauvignon (72%) in thirty years, matured in 40% new oak. This, again, has a rather light and straightforward bouquet. It is clean and delineated, though it does not deliver the same complexity as the previous two vintages. Fine tannins frame the cohesive palate, and the prudent use of oak (with 10% aged in concrete) proved to be an assiduous decision as it imparts elegance on the finish. Overall, this Lafon-Rochet doesn't possess the complexity of the best recent vintages, but is a capable and fresh Saint-Estèphe that should drink well for 15 years or more.

Score: 89 - 91 Neal Martin, Vinous.com Maturity: 2029-2045

[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] Lagrange (St Julien) St Julien ---- 6x75cl 90-92 - 89-91 93 90-93 -
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The 2024 Lagrange is quite promising. Deep and vibrant in the glass, with terrific energy, Lagrange offers fine depth and plenty of harmony to match. Dark red cherry, spice, new leather, tobacco and incense resonate on the layered finish. Tasted two times.

Score: 90 - 93 Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com Maturity: 2029-2044

Notes of minty cassis, blackberries and pencil shavings introduce the 2024 Lagrange, a medium-bodied, dense wine with a sweet core of fruit framed by somewhat firm and assertive tannins.

Score: 89 - 91 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com

Classically balanced St Julien, firm cassis and white peppers, enjoyable mid palate texture, slate textured tannins add grip and tension, successful in the vintage.

Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2045

The 2024 Lagrange consists of 84% Cabernet Sauvignon (the second highest ever), 10% Merlot (the lowest ever) and the remainder Petit Verdot, with 11% vin de presse. Matured in 55% new oak, this has a tightly-wound bouquet that demands a little more coaxing than the Les Fiefs, though this was on a day when, for some reason, some Saint-Julien samples required it. The palate is medium-bodied and obviously driven by the dominant Cabernet, with grainy tannins and black fruit laced with graphite and cedar. Cohesive on the finish with just the right amount of sapidity, this is obviously not in the league of the benchmark 2022, but it constitutes a successful wine for the vintage.

Score: 90 - 92 Neal Martin, Vinous.com Maturity: 2030-2050

[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] Langoa Barton St Julien ---- 6x75cl 89-91 - 92-94 93 91-93 -
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The 2024 Langoa-Barton is such a pretty wine. Floral and bright, with lovely mid-weight structure, Langoa is a total charmer. Rose petal, crushed red berry fruit, spice, orange peel and mint are beautifully lifted. Bright saline undertones extend the finish. The 2024 is a promising Langoa. Tasted two times.

Score: 91 - 93 Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com Maturity: 2029-2039

The 2024 Langoa Barton is showing beautifully, wafting from the glass with aromas of sweet blackberries and plums mingled with notions of licorice, pencil shavings and lilac. Medium to full-bodied, with lively acids and good depth and density, it's pure and refined. This is a blend of 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Franc, picked between 24 September and 5 October.

Score: 92 - 94 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com

Floral peony and lilac aromatics on the Langoa, and the fruit character keeps things finessed and soft - think red cherry, cherry pit, tobacco, black tea, thoroughly charming, just a little short on the finished compared to the exceptional 2022 or 2023 vintages. The difference in the blends between the two Barton St Julien wines is significant this year, with just over 50% here of Cabernet Sauvignon compared to over 90% in Léoville. Harvest 24 September to 5 October. 60% new oak, 30hl/h yield.

Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2042

The 2024 Langoa Barton was picked from September 29 to October 5 and matured in 60% new oak. This is quite closed on the nose—indeed, General Manager Damien Barton had forewarned that for whatever reason, the samples had aromatically clammed up on a sunny day! The palate is medium-bodied with black plummy fruit, touches of graphite and cracked black pepper and nice grip on the mid-palate. The 2024 is not as complex as, say, the 2022, but it has an appealing, linear finish.

Score: 89 - 91 Neal Martin, Vinous.com Maturity: 2029-2050

[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] Larcis Ducasse St Emilion ---- 6x75cl 90-92 - - 94 94-97 -
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The 2024 Larcis Ducasse is dense, powerful and imposing, almost surprisingly so. All of the wine's intensity is in the mid-palate. Black cherry, plum, mocha, lavender, chocolate and cinnamon meld together in the glass, but it is the wine's mind-blowing balance that stands out most. This is another stellar showing from Larcis Ducasse. There's real potential here. Tasted four times.

Score: 94 - 97 Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com Maturity: 2034-2054

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.

Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2044

The 2024 Larcis Ducasse offers strawberry and raspberry pastilles intermixed with vanilla on the nose, quite expressive even if it lacks a bit of complexity compared to the best vintages. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly "thick" tannins that lend a bit more grip. The 2024 is a solid Saint-Émilion that lacks a bit of finesse but has flavour and density. It could come around if given a prudent élevage.

Score: 90 - 92 Neal Martin, Vinous.com Maturity: 2028-2042

[Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] Laroque St Emilion ---- 6x75cl 89-91 - - 93 88-90 -
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The 2024 Laroque is a sleek, polished wine made mostly from the Saint-Christophe-des-Bardes plateau in this vintage. Silky and aromatic, with mid-weight structure, the 2024 is attractive. However, the challenges of the vintage are evident in the light mid-palate and soft finish. Élevage will be critical. Tasted two times.

Score: 88 - 90 Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com Maturity: 2028-2039

Deep plum colour, cold ash and fennel on the opening, savoury, well judged and well extracted, this is on the slim side, with the focus on cassis bud and rose petals. You probably have to be a bit of a limestone fanatic (as I am) to truly love this vintage of Laroque, because it is less gourmet than in vintages like 2022 and 2023, setting texture and minerality above fruit, but exceptionally well handled by estate director David Suire, and it should soften further ove ageing. Once again a value pick.

Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2029-2040

The 2024 Laroque has satisfying concentration on the nose with blackberry, wild strawberry and light floral scents. It just needs a little more delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with much lighter tannins than recent vintages under winemaker David Suire. The 2024 is nicely balanced, displaying simple and noticeably tertiary red fruit and modest weight on the finish. Sure, it comes across a bit short compared to stellar wines in recent vintages; nevertheless, it should give up to a decade of drinking pleasure.

Score: 89 - 91 Neal Martin, Vinous.com Maturity: 2029-2039

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