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2015 Château La Violette

Removed from a professional wine storage facility; Purchased at auction; Consignor is second owner

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RATINGS

98James Suckling

Very attractive and vibrant purple berries, dark cherries, blueberries, fresh earth and violets on the nose... The palate delivers a sleeve of perfectly ripe dark-plum and blueberry flavors and makes a deep-set impression via succulent, lustrous tannins that roll smooth and deep. Fresh, earthy finish. Superb wine.

97Jeb Dunnuck

...notes of violets, black currants, toasty oak, and graphite...hits the palate with full-bodied richness, a seamless, sexy texture, no hard edges and fine, fine tannin.

96+ The Wine Advocate

...scents of potpourri, dried lavender, bouquet garni and cigar boxes over a core of warm plums, blueberry compote and cassis plus a waft of underbrush. Full-bodied, rich and opulent in the mouth and packed with black fruit and spice layers, it's framed with a firm yet velvety structure and oodles of freshness, finishing long.

96Vinous / IWC

...red berry fruit, leather, sage and black truffle scents that are very well defined. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, a fine bead of acidity, and gentle grip. A rounded finish belies that backbone. What a superb Pomerol - very convincing, modern in style, sleek and quite penetrating.

93Wine Spectator

Fresh raspberry and red currant coulis notes stream through, tilting toward the racier side of the spectrum, picking up rooibos tea, blood orange, incense and mulled anise accents along the way. Singed vanilla details underscore the finish and add a flashy component.

16.5Jancis Robinson

Ripe black-cherry notes. Very sweet start. Verging on overripe notes with a hint of coconut oak.

PRODUCER

Château La Violette

Château La Violette is an 8.5-acre estate near Château Le Pin and Château Trotanoy in Pomerol. Since 2005 it has been owned by Catherine Pere-Verge. The vineyards are 100% Merlot and on average the vines are 40 years old. Consulting winemaker Michel Rolland has helped craft the wines of this estate since Pere-Verge acquired it. About 5,000 bottles are produced annually.

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

2015 Château La Violette