Château La Conseillante, 2025
Château La Conseillante, 2025
- 75cl
- 14%
- Red Still
- Merlot, Cabernet Franc
- Organic
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Château La Conseillante stands as one of Pomerol's most celebrated estates, crafting wines of remarkable elegance from their prime 12-hectare plot on the plateau. This Merlot-dominated blend captures everything we love about great Pomerol: the silky power, the mineral backbone, the way fruit and earth dance together without either dominating.
What the critics say:
"Dark ruby garnet, opaque core, violet reflections, subtle edge brightening. Delicate floral nuances of candied violets, a hint of blackberries and sour cherries, some cloves, a hint of sour cherries and mandarin zest. Juicy, highly elegant, delicate extract sweetness, silky tannins, finesse-rich acidity, harmonious and already so well developed that one would like to start enjoying it immediately, great length, finesse and sure maturity potential. Fascinating."
"The 2025 La Conseillante is shaping up to be magnificent. Rich and luscious in the glass, the 2025 offers up an exotic melange of inky dark fruit, cloves, new leather, licorice and mocha. This is the first vintage that sees the return of Cabernet Sauvignon, historically a part of the blend from at least 1871 to 1956, when frost devastated many vineyards in Pomerol. The 2025 is impressively deep, but also quite vibrant. I can't wait to see how it ages. It's a superb effort from Technical Director tv1arielle Cazaux and her team. Cazaux made an immediate impact when she arrived in 2015, starting with a move to lower-intervention farming that was immediately apparent. I will have more to say about that and other related subjects in a separate article we will publish later in the year. Tasted two times. "
La Conseillante's vineyards sit on the famous Pomerol plateau where gravel meets the blue clay of Petrus. This unique soil composition - gravel over iron-rich clay with crasse de fer - provides excellent drainage whilst retaining moisture during dry spells. The elevated position and clay subsoil create wines of remarkable depth and mineral complexity, distinct from the sandier soils found elsewhere in Pomerol.
Pomerol is Bordeaux's smallest great appellation, covering just 785 hectares on the Right Bank. Unlike the Médoc, it has no official classification - quality is determined purely by reputation and terroir. The clay and gravel soils favour merlot over cabernet sauvignon, producing wines of remarkable richness and complexity. Pomerol's proximity to Saint-Émilion creates stylistic similarities, though the best Pomerols achieve a unique combination of power and elegance.
The 2025 Bordeaux vintage emerged from one of the most demanding growing seasons in recent memory — the earliest budbreak since 1989, June temperatures second only to 2003 since records began, and an unusually early harvest beginning in August for the whites. Conditions that should have produced heavy, overripe wines. They didn't. Decanter's Georgie Hindle, who tasted close to 200 wines ahead of the formal campaign, describes "exceptional concentration, aromatic purity and a freshness that contradicts the record-breaking heat.
The early critical consensus places 2025 stylistically between the precision of 2020 and the structure of 2016, with the brightness of 2023 — a combination that suggests a very serious vintage indeed. Yields are dramatically low, the smallest crop since 1991, with production across the Gironde running around 15% below the five-year average. The quality is here. There simply isn't very much of it.
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