2019 Laroze
Market price
Buying options
Tasting notes
This showing of the 2019 Laroze suggests that the sample dispatched to the UK during Covid was faulty. This has a fresh, quite detailed bouquet with blackberry, cedar and tobacco scents - very focused and quite Left Bank in style. The palate is medium-bodied with a high-toned opening, exuberant with plenty of energy, vivid compared to its peers. A sheen of vanillary new oak on the finish seems simpatico with the fruit. Tasted blind at the Southwold annual tasting.
Critic scores
Average Score
Jancis Robinson MW
Jancis Robinson MW
More reviews and scores
Tasted blind. A little too evolved on the nose? Then quite pinched on the palate. Where’s the opulence of the vintage? A bit stringy on the finish. (JR)
I loved the 2019 Château Laroze from barrel and it's showing nicely from bottle, with an almost Médoc-like bouquet of red and black currants, tobacco, cedar pencil, and chocolate. Medium to full-bodied on the palate, with silky tannins, this complex, nuanced, elegant Saint-Emilion is going to drink beautifully for 10-15 years.
Exhibiting aromas of blackberries, loamy soil and toasty new oak, the 2019 Laroze is medium to full-bodied, chunky and extracted.