2024 Larcis Ducasse
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Tasting Notes
The 2024 Larcis Ducasse was showing well during our tasting, revealing ripe, expressive aromas of violet, dark berries, smoke, pencil lead and subtle oak. Medium to full-bodied, layered and seamless, it is both lively and elegant with a juicy core of fruit and velvety tannins that gently assert themselves on the youthfully chalky finish. The fruit appears perfectly ripe—avoiding the over-ripeness observed in some recent vintages—allowing the wine to convey the character of its limestone terroir. The blend is composed of 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc.
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Yohan Castaing, Wine Advocate
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
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Good grip, plenty of character and depth through the palate, freshly cut herbs, blueberry and blackcurrant, savoury with floral character. Harvest 24 September to 7 October. 50% new oak, Gratiot-Atimane family.
The 2024 Larcis Ducasse offers strawberry and raspberry pastilles intermixed with vanilla on the nose, quite expressive even if it lacks a bit of complexity compared to the best vintages. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly "thick" tannins that lend a bit more grip. The 2024 is a solid Saint-Émilion that lacks a bit of finesse but has flavour and density. It could come around if given a prudent élevage.
The wonderful blue clay in the terroir plays a crucial role here as does the Southern exposure on the Côte Pavie. Very pretty and very refined, much more so than it used to be, this is poised and elegant, cool-scented and intense in its combination of incense and violet, rose petal and myrrh accompanying and enrobing and enrichening as it does so the intensely dark berry fruits. There’s graphite by the nuclear reactor core load. But everything here is so refined. There’s cedar on the palate, too, above all with gentle aeration in the mouth. Gorgeous aromatically and brilliant in its purity, this is a wine that almost brings a tear to my eye. This transcends the vintage and shows the colossal potential of this exceptional terroir. The gentle grip and structuring touch of the calcaire tannins as the wine caresses the palate is sublime.
About the producer
Over the last two decades, Nicolas Thienpont and David Suire have forged this estate’s reputation – crafting increasingly impressive wines from its 11 hectares of south-facing slopes on clay-limestone soils.