2024 Prieure Lichine
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Tasting notes
Smartly constructed, with a slow unrolling of the blackberry fruits, sweet raspberry and strawberry puree, sage and white pepper spice, a touch of leafiness through the mid palate but fragrant and charming. Harvest 26 September to 9 October. 35% new oak. Upscore potential in bottle.
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Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
Antonio Galloni, Vinous
More reviews and scores
The 2024 Prieuré-Lichine is an attractive wine, but it does show the lighter side of the year, accented by the fact that Prieuré-Lichine is never a big wine. Dark red/black fruit, mocha, licorice and spice all meld together in the glass, with good mid-palate pliancy and promising balance. Tasted two times.
The 2024 Prieuré-Lichine offers violet-infused black fruit on the nose. It is simple and lacks a bit of bandwidth but remains clean. The palate is medium-bodied with grippy tannins, a bit hard on the mid-palate, with a peppery finish. This is just missing a bit of elegance and complexity, but it should provide 10 to 12 years of drinking pleasure.
Flowers, licorice, smoke, black, with red currants, and plums come through in the aromatics. The medium-palate is soft, round, and subtle, with elegant, ripe, black cherries displaying an almost creamy edge to the texture which carries through to the fresh finish. The wine blends 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 29% Merlot, and 6% Petit Verdot.
About the producer
After 50 years under the direction of the Lichine family, this leading Margaux estate entered a new chapter in 1999 when négociant Ballande took the reins, continuing the property’s previous upward trajectory.