2024 La Petite Eglise
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Tasting Notes
La Petite Eglise is always impressive and the 2024 is no different. Notes of iris and sweet cherries fill the nose. There’s real power and concentration to the palate, with seamless fruit and superfine tannins – creating a wine with no edges and real wow factor. There’s a savoury edge of damp, earthy forest floor to the long, dark-fruited finish. Aged in 70% new oak, 13.5% alcohol. Blend: 90% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc
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Yohan Castaing, Wine Advocate
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
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A blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, the 2024 La Petite Eglise offers up aromas of dark berries, spices and licorice, followed by a medium-bodied, compact palate with tangy acids and firm structuring tannins.
The colour here is vibrant ruby and violet, this has so much precision and energy, sapidy, cherry pit, violets, again the textural side of the vintage is at the fore, coffee beans, espresso and black chocolate, notes that I have not written in many wines this year, No chaptilisation, 3.62ph, 70% new oak, harvest september 20 to 28. Love this, has a sense of vibration that might make this the 2nd wine of the vintage. If this comes out at a good price, run don't walk, as they say.
The 2024 La Petite Eglise was picked between September 20 and 28 and matured in 70% new oak. This was showing a bit of reduction on the nose that made it a little harder to read, but there is certainly decent fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannins and impressive structure given the vintage and that this is a Deuxième Vin with plenty of mineral-driven black fruit on the vivacious finish. It is excellent.
About the producer
Ch. l'Eglise-Clinet is one of the most unassuming wine estates in Bordeaux. You'd probably drive past it if you didn't have prior knowledge of its vinous output. There's no ostentatious gateway nor sweeping gravel drive.