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2009 Château La Conseillante, 12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

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2009 Château La Conseillante

750ml

RATINGS

97Vinous / IWC

...very classy and sophisticated bouquet with beautifully defined black and red fruit mixed with black truffle and pressed rose petals...medium-bodied with ripe and saturated tannin, a fine line of acidity, fresh and tensile with a sense of mineralité on the finish.

97James Suckling

At once deep and rich, yet cool and delicate with a minty freshness, this is a really concentrated and super-elegant Pomerol...

96The Wine Advocate

...very classy Black Forest cake, blueberry compote and kirsch scents plus suggestions of violets, liquid licorice, cardamom and bay leaves with a touch of eucalyptus. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is elegantly fruited with a firm, grainy frame and oodles of freshness, finishing long and minerally.

96Wine Spectator

This delivers stunning toasted spice, mocha and black tea aromas...core of plum, blackberry and fig flavors... The long finish is liberally laced with a racy graphite note, while the perfumy accent pervades.

96Jeb Dunnuck

...sexy, seductive, opulent even, Pomerol that offers a huge array of spiced dark fruits, cured meats, crushed flowers, and truffle. Deep, full-bodied, layered and beautifully pure, with an extroverted personality that just begs to be drunk...

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93John Gilman

...ripe and classy nose of red and black raspberries, chocolate, fine, gravelly soil tones, tobacco smoke and spicy new oak...deep, full-bodied and ripely tannic, with a fine core of fruit, good focus and balance and very good length and grip...

17.5Jancis Robinson

A burnt, savoury edge. Lively... Well balanced and quite Cabernet. Really fresh and long – all on the finish.

PRODUCER

Château La Conseillante

Château La Conseillante, a Pomerol estate, was founded in 1871 by the Nicolas family. Today the 30-acre estate is still owned and managed by the Nicolas family. Like other wines in the Pomerol appellation, La Conseillante is unclassified. La Conseillante however is considered one of the region’s best wines, and Robert M. Parker Jr. has written that the estate “produces some of this appellation’s most elegant, lush, and delicious wines…La Conseillante is a meticulously made wine.” The blend is typically 70% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc and 5% Malbec. About 6,000 cases are produced annually. There is no second wine.

REGION

France, Bordeaux, Pomerol

Pomerol is the smallest of Bordeaux’s red wine producing regions, with only about 2,000 acres of vineyards. Located on the east side of the Dordogne River, it is one of the so-called “right bank” appellations and therefore planted primarily to Merlot. Pomerol is unique in Bordeaux in that it is the only district never to have been rated in a classification system. Some historians think Pomerol’s location on the right bank made it unattractive to Bordeaux-based wine traders, who had plenty of wine from Medoc and Graves to export to England and northern Europe. Since ranking estates was essentially a marketing ploy to help brokers sell wine, ranking an area where they did little business held no interest for them. Pomerol didn’t get much attention from the international wine community until the 1960s, when Jean-Pierre Moueix, an entrepreneurial wine merchant, started buying some of Pomerol’s best estates and exporting the wines. Today the influential Moueix family owns Pomerol’s most famous estate, Château Pétrus, along with numerous other Pomerol estates. Pomerol wines, primarily Merlot blended with small amounts of Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon, are considered softer and less tannic than left bank Bordeaux.

VINTAGE

2009 Château La Conseillante

"Adjoining Petrus, L'Evangile and Vieux-Chateau-Certan it is not surprising that this is one of the top Pomerols"- Clive Coates MW