2024 de Fieuzal Blanc
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This is a lively, vibrant wine. It’s vivid and bright with layers of greengage, green apple and pear. There’s great purity to the palate, with a stony, mineral undercurrent to the fruit – the wine zingy, fresh and mouth-watering with plenty of juicy acidity. 12.5%. Blend: 70% Sauvignon Blanc, 30% Semillon
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Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
Yohan Castaing, Wine Advocate
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Very true to its style. Waxy, open-textured, very fine and refined. Saffron, yellow flowers, buttercups. Acacia. A little toasted almonds. Mimosa. Elderflower. Even a little rose petal. There’s lovely hint of peach, peach stone and apricot. Stricter than the 2022 and more like the 2021 in a way, this is beautifully shaped – an hourglass on its side. Tender. Fluid. Beautifully sustained by the granular acidity, rippling towards the finish and then releasing sapidity and juiciness. Very pure yet with a certain opulence despite the structuring and structural acidity. Less strict than many of the wines of the vintage and more aerial and ethereal for that.
Medium intensity pale gold colour, beautiful grip and lift on the attack, gentle wash of cloves and gunsmoke, this is super pretty, well placed with lift and pared back white peach and nectarine flesh. A gourmet style of white in the vintage, great quality from estate director Stephen Carrier.
A blend of 70% Sauvignon Blanc and 30% Sémillon, the 2024 Blanc from de Fieuzal is showing beautifully at this stage. Offering up a complex, elegant bouquet of citrus zest, almond blossoms and Anjou pear, it's medium to full-bodied, sappy and enveloping with a delicate, fleshy core of fruit and a long, phenolic finish. Produced at a healthy yield of 40 hectoliters per hectare, this is a superb wine that reflects the benefits of the estate’s patient approach in this vintage—the harvest began on September eighth and concluded on the 19th, whereas in other vintages, it was wrapped up by the sixth.
About the producer
Named after the Fieuzal family who owned this estate until 1851, today Ch. de Fieuzal is owned by the Quinns. Since their arrival in 2001, the Irish family has restored the property and built its reputation for quality.