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JAMES SUCKLING: "Good depth of fruit with medium to full body. Roasted spices, baked black cherries and some cocoa powder on the palate. This has firm, fine-grained and more polished tannins than many of its counterparts this year. Lengthy finish."
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JEB DUNNUCK: "Juicy black cherries, spring flowers, violets, and spicy wood notes all emerge from the 2024 Château La Violette, another pure, beautifully textured wine from this team. With medium-bodied richness, it's all about finesse and elegance while still bringing wonderful depth, richness, and length. Made from 100% Merlot, it will spend 14 months in 100% new French oak barrels."
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FALSTAFF: "Ein relativ entwickeltes, leicht oxidatives Muster, leider keine zweite Flasche vorhanden. Karamell vom Holz, Hochreife Frucht, Schwarzkirsche, Holunder, nachgerade teerige Noten. Auch schwarzer Pfeffer, dann auch Herzkirsche, Milchschokolade. Nicht extrem floral dieses Jahr. Eher Kräuternoten: Thymian. Der Gaumen zeigt einen fleischigen Extrakt, der Gerbstoff ist körnig, anhaftend und zuletzt trocken, wirkt aber gut von Frucht und Saftigkeit begleitet, die Abgangsaromatik zeigt sich von der würzigen Seite."
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LISA PERROTTI-BROWN: "Deep garnet-purple colored. Offers up fragrant scents of lilacs, wild blueberries, and black raspberries, leading to touches of garrigue and fertile loam, plus a waft of cedar. The medium-bodied palate delivers grainy tannins and a good intensity of blackberry flavors with just enough freshness and a spicy finish."
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ANSON: "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."
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THE WINE CELLAR INSIDER: "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."
