2024 La Serre
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Coming from seven hectares of clay and limestone soils, the 2024 Château La Serre is based on 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc, raised in 50% new oak. Its medium ruby/purple hue is followed by a pretty perfume of ripe raspberries, sappy spring flowers, and peppery underbrush, with just a kiss of minerality. It's medium-bodied, has a supple, layered, soft mouthfeel, nicely polished tannins, and outstanding length. It's beautifully balanced and is all about charm and finesse.
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William Kelley, Wine Advocate
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
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The 2024 La Serre offers up attractive aromas of cherries, raspberries, petals and fresh mint, followed by a medium-bodied, ample and pure palate that's precise and vibrant, with good intensity and cut. This is a strong performance from this improving property.
Well located on the limestone plateau, this is understated, elegant, well balanced, effortless, with a great mix of austerity, limestone typicity, salted cracker, raspberry leaf, redcurrant and gunsmoke. A little abrupt on the finish. 50% new oak. Harvest 28 September to 9 October.
The 2024 La Serre is less opulent than recent vintages as expected, though it unfolds with pleasant blackberry, wild strawberry and light mocha scents. The palate is soft and rounded on the entry—no hard edges here. The 2024 has light tannins but there is sufficient weight on the lightly spiced finish to keep you happy. This is gluggable in the most positive sense of the word.