2012-CHÂTEAU-LA-CONSEILLANTE-Pomerol

CHÂTEAU LA CONSEILLANTE

2013 Pomerol

Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Sub-district Pomerol & Lalande de Pomerol
Village Pomerol

Bright ruby-purple. Richer compared to the Duo (second wine), with a definite touch of nobility in the aromas. Tannins build, but although drying are not really aggressive, and the pretty blackcurrant and blueberry fruit stays well. Long, especially for the vintage. Jean-Michel Laporte seems (justifiably) pleased with this and told us that 2013 was in fact much more homogenous thoughout the vineyard than 2012 - only 12% has gone to the second wine, with 88% in the Grand Vin. They made 30hl/ha, and the clusters were well aerated. 'We did have botrytis, but when we had to harvest because of the botrytis, we were harvesting because the grapes were ripe too.' He did not want to extract aggressively, but was able to do long 'cuvaison' with some vats gently infusing for up to 35 days. Since 2010 J-M has reduced the new oak to 65%, but he felt no reason to reduce it more this year and it is true that the wine seems to have absorbed it effortlessly. 2017-2026 Rating: 91 L&S (Apr 2014)


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The grand vin, the 2013 La Conseillante, is a delicious, supple wine displaying notes of violets, incense, licorice, black cherries and raspberries. Well-made and medium-bodied, but neither as deep nor concentrated as the 2009 and 2010, its soft, seductive style argue well for drinking over the next decade. 2014-2022 Rating: 89-91 Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate, www.RobertParker.com (Aug 2014)

(82% merlot and 18% cabernet franc): Bright ruby. Knockout aromas of dark cherry, raspberry and violet, complicated by graphite and coffee. Clean, fresh and very pure, offering dark berry and flinty flavors of above-average precision. Finishes with suave, rising tannins. The house signature of refinement and purity of fruit enables me to recognize this wine blind almost every time in a battery of Pomerol wines. A lighter-style La Conseillante, it's nonetheless one of my favorites of the vintage. Rating: 88-91 Ian d'Agata - Stephen Tanzer website (May 2014)

Light and fresh the nose has a mix of red fruits but the palate is richer deeper more profound with black fruits showing under the red. Rich in the middle with a greater weight of fruit the black plum sweetness underpinned by red fruit freshness coming through on the finish.. 2020-2030. Rating: 89-93 Derek Smedley MW, www.dereksmedleymw.co.uk (May 2014)

Château La Conseillante

Château la Conseillante’s origins lay in an estate called Domaine de Mautretat that was broken up in the early years of the 18th Century with reverend gentleman called M. Léglise purchasing the part that became Château l’Evangile whilst Catherine Conseillan took the other. In 1871 Château la Conseillante was bought by the Nicolas family who own it to this day. With only the addition of a small plot of vines in 2014, the estate has remained the same ever since. The 12ha of vineyard are planted with 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc. The vineyards border Petrus to the north, and one can gaze across l’Evangile and see the vines of Château Cheval Blanc. Indeed, a small part of la Conseillante’s vineyard strays across into St Emilion, but is included in the main Pomerol cuvée. Château la Conseillante is a well-executed balancing act marrying tradition with modernity, something exemplified by the new cellar that opened in 2012.

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