2024 Marquis d'Alesme
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Tasting Notes
The 2024 Marquis d’Alesme has a wonderfully inviting nose, with a delicate bouquet of floral aromatics, notes of rose petals and lilac springing from the glass. The palate is so pure and precise this year with notes of crunchy red fruit that come to the fore. There’s impeccable length on the finish, driven by carefully managed acidity that carries the abundance of fruit. This feels so approachable despite its youth.
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Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
Neal Martin, Vinous
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Really lovely quality, so much texture and depth, violet flowers, sweet plum character, perhaps a little sour acidity also, we are fully in push and pull territory, well constructed, powerful but the tannins are hard on the finish. 50% new oak. Harvest 24 September to 8 October. 55% new oak. 3.65 pH. 35 hl/ha yield. The blend is the plantation.
The 2024 Marquis d'Alesme Becker has a clean, fresh and well-defined bouquet with pure black cherry and blueberry fruit. Hints of crushed violet develop in the glass. This has the composure of its "sibling," the Labégorce. The palate is medium-bodied, fresh and crisp with pliant tannins and a very harmonious, poised finish. This is promising, and hopefully the quality will be replicated in bottle.
Black cherries, peppery herbs, flowers, and black raspberries blend to create the nose. The wine is piquant, edgy, and bright, with a crispness to its character giving you a big, crunchy bite of red currants and peppery spice in the finish. The wine blends 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot and 5% Cabernet Franc. 13% ABV. 3.5 pH. The harvest took place from September 16 - October 6. Yields were only 32 hectoliters per hectare.
About the producer
The estate dates back to 1585 and has been producing wine on the property since the early 17th century. In the 1855 classification the Chateau was awarded Third Growth status.