Château La Violette 2024

Truffles, espresso, violets, and chocolate-coated black plums, with a touch of spice, form the perfume. On the palate, the wine is soft, polished, juicy, and plummy. There is freshness and lift to the energetic red pit fruits in the mid-palate, with a lot of concentration for the vintage, due to their low yields of only 16 hectoliters per hectare. Still a bit oaky, you will need some patience to allow the oak to better integrate into the wine. Harvesting took place September 9 - September 13. The wine was produced from 100% Merlot, 13.5% ABV. Drink from 2029-2045. 92-94 pts

Intense blackcurrant notes in the bouquet of Violette 2024, which also reveals hints of graphite, mint and eucalyptus with aeration. What a journey between freshness and ripeness! Rather slender on the attack, the wine creates a delightful symbiosis of charm and energy. Its compact tannins provide power, while fine bitterness underpins the freshness and aromatic expression of the finish… as well as the resulting persistence. An imposing wine that will need time.

(100% Merlot) The nose is elegant, aromatic, racy, precise and offers a lovely fleshy/finely textured feel, precision, depth and complexity. It reveals notes of blueberry and violet and, more subtly, cornflower, with touches of elegantly roasted cherry, hints of bright fruit, star anise, a delicate hint of lilac, graphene, discreet hints of camphor and a subtle chocolatey note. The palate is beautifully handled, fresh, supple, suave, offering creamy freshness, a zesty backbone, finesse, roundness, suppleness, indulgence, with very fine tang and freshness. On the palate, this wine expresses notes of pulpy/juicy blackberry and bright purple plum, with touches of lily, fine hints of graphene, racy minerality, as well as hints of lilac, tonka bean and cocoa nibs. Good length and persistence. Plushness and a lovely finish. A subtle sweet note/Bourbon vanilla on the finish/persistence.

This has a ton of chiselled black fruit, great depth and silkiness. Lovely texture, lots of juice, bright blue fruits, creamy as it opens, soft incense and cedar oak. Long cold soak of 8 days (not unusual here), 100% new oak. Definitely keeps the estate signature. 100% integral vinification, and all de-stemmed by hand, 1.68ha.

Deep black colour. An intense, refined, pure nose—fruity and profound. Broad on the attack, meticulous through the mid-palate and highly aromatic, the wine melts across the palate, juicy and dense. Long, complex and noble. Bravo! 100% Merlot. Alcohol: 13.5% - pH: 3. Yield: 16 hl/ha.