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Château de La Dauphine 2024

Name: Château de La Dauphine 2024
Brand: Château de La Dauphine
SKU: 1553/2024
Price: 20.333333333333332 EUR
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.46 (140 reviews)

Bordeaux

Fronsac

- Red - See details

J. Suckling | 90-91

Vinous - A. Galloni | 91-93

The Wine Independent | 89-91

Vinous Neal Martin | 90-92

€122.00 Incl. VAT

(

€20.33 / Unit

)

€111.67 Ex duty & VAT

Packaging : a box of 6 Bottles (75cl)

1 x 75CL

€22.20

6 x 75CL

€122.00

En Primeur Wines – delivery in early 2027

ALL VINTAGES OF THIS WINE

All Château de La Dauphine wines

Marks and reviews

/100

Vinum

Delicately scented, fresh and floral on the nose, with violet, blackberry, plum and Earl Grey tea; fine-boned on the palate, precise tannins embracing the fruit, elegant, light-footed, almost floating across the tongue, with good length and plenty of polish. A dancing La Dauphine.

/100

Decanter

Clean and crystalline, quite a straightforward style, less focused on plush fruit; this is more structured and firm, cool and centred around fine tannins with a saline grip. There’s some juiciness that keeps the expression lifted, and this ends cool and fresh. Well worked, still with plenty of nuance. I like this. It’s very honest, no make-up, nothing covering the expression of the season, the grapes and the terroir. One third of normal production, 30,000 instead of 150,000.

/100

Jeff Leve

Leve Jeff

With a floral bouquet setting off the perfume, the wine is on the finesse side, focusing on its elegant character that allows its vivid display of black raspberries, plums, licorice, chocolate, and crushed stones to shine. The wine blends 75% Merlot with 25% Cabernet Franc. Production was down close to 70% from hail. Drink from 2027-2039. 91-93 pts

/100

Le Figaro Vin

Fleshy and indulgent, the bouquet reveals stewed red-fruit aromas that still retain freshness. Old rose notes bring a peppery touch. This fleshy character carries through to a bouncy texture, full of fresh, juicy fruit. A satisfying roundness that lingers through the finish for total pleasure.

Description

A Fronsac wine with silky tannins and mineral expression

The estate

Created in 1750 by Jean-Baptiste de Richon in the Fronsac appellation of Bordeaux, the Château de La Dauphine takes its name from a stay by Marie-Josèphe de Saxe, Dauphine of France. The estate spans limestone plateaus and is distinguished by its royal heritage, exceptional terroir and environmentally respectful viticultural philosophy, producing wines of great finesse.

The vineyard

Covering 40 hectares, the vineyard of Château de La Dauphine flourishes on the prestigious limestone plateaus of Fronsac. The vines, which average 30 years of age, benefit from optimal exposure on this limestone terroir, giving the wines their distinctive mineral character and remarkable aging potential.

The vintage

The 2024 vintage is characterized by its late development, marked by significant rainfall that influenced the vegetative cycle. The clay soils withstood the climatic challenges better, yielding grapes of exceptional quality.

Winemaking and aging

The winemaking favors a rigorous plot selection, retaining only the finest plots of the limestone plateau. Manual pump-overs and the use of a vertical hydraulic press allow for delicate extraction. Malolactic fermentation takes place in barrels, followed by a 12-month aging combining barrels, 20-hectolitre vats and amphorae.

Blend

This Château de La Dauphine 2024 is the result of a blend composed of Merlot and Cabernet Franc, reflecting the typicity of the great wines of Bordeaux's right bank.

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