Château La Conseillante 2021
235.00 €
WHAT CONSTITUTES THE DNA OF LA CONSEILLANTE?
The family is the strength of La Conseillante. The Nicolas family has been making wine for 150 vintages, which is substantial. The grape blend is selected each year by the family and voted in using a secret ballot system for the team. It’s amusing because we always find a consensus.
La Conseillante is a wine that has one foot in Pomerol and another in Saint-Emilion, both geographically and in style. The power is balanced by more refined plots of Merlot and Cabernets grown on gravel and not just clay. Aromatics are key in La Conseillante wine, with floral notes of violet and iris in its youth. Then, truffle notes develop with time. The mid-palate is creamy, possesses great length, gives a rounded structure with a fresh finish that tightens the wine.
I like to say that we are halfway between Petrus and Château Cheval-Blanc. Depending on the vintage, we may lean more towards the expression of clay or gravel, but we are an atypical Pomerol with fine tannins and intensity – my raison d’être!
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The 2021 is a fruity, creamy and quite concentrated wine. The vintage has texture and bright fruit and a delicate, tannic mouth-feel. The freshness, juicy flavour and digestible character of the wine reminds us somewhat of the La Conseillante 2012, or even the 2016 in some ways. The balance between the alcoholic degree, around 13°, and the good levels of acidity, gives this vintage very good ageing capacity. This 2021 will delight and surprise many a consumer.