2024 La Violette
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This has a ton of chiselled black fruit, great depth and silkiness. Lovely texture, lots of juice, bright blue fruits, creamy as it opens, soft incense and cedar oak. Long cold soak of 8 days (not unusual here), 100% new oak. Definitely keeps the estate signature. 100% integral vinification, and all de-stemmed by hand, 1.68ha.
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Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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The 2024 La Violette is a sensual yet powerful Pomerol. Blue/purplish fruit, lavender, menthol, chocolate and espresso all meld together. La Violette is vinified entirely in French oak barrels. It's an approach that seems especially well-suited to this wine, as the wood amplifies flavor intensity. In recent years, La Violette has shed some of the heavy extraction that was penalizing in the past.
The 2024 La Violette, aged in 80% in new oak, has a gorgeous bouquet with pure black cherries and crushed violet scents—well defined while retaining that opulent style. The palate is medium-bodied with plush tannins in its signature style, not as complex as the best vintages but it maintains balance and purity to the end. Just 2,600 bottles were produced.
Truffles, espresso, violets, and chocolate-coated black plums, with a touch of spice, form the perfume. On the palate, the wine is soft, polished, juicy, and plummy. There is freshness and lift to the energetic red pit fruits in the mid-palate, with a lot of concentration for the vintage, due to their low yields of only 16 hectoliters per hectare. Still a bit oaky, you will need some patience to allow the oak to better integrate into the wine. Harvesting took place September 9 - September 13. The wine was produced from 100% Merlot, 13.5 % ABV.