2024 Les Champs Libres
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The 2024 Les Champs Libres is vivid and beautiful but also quite reticent today. In 2024, Les Champs Libres is bright and nicely lifted, with deceptive depth to match its airy, refined personality. Les Champs Libres is 100% Sauvignon Blanc vinified and aged in French oak. Its balance is exquisite, even if the 2024 is not as showy as most vintages.
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
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Grated ginger with citrus, chamomile, white tea, grip, energy, gunsmoke, preserved lemons. One of the very few wines this year that make you feel the smile, the electricity, and the desire to own it. Clay limestone soils, harvest 10 and 11 September. 100% Sancerre massal selections. One of the wines of the vintage, from the team at Château Lafleur.
The 2024 Les Champs Libres, pure Sauvignon Blanc picked on September 10 and 11, takes a little coaxing from the glass to gradually reveal subtle white flower, beeswax and Anjou pear scents. The palate is well balanced with lime cordial and citrus fruit on the entry giving way to hints of Japanese yuzu and Clementine towards the poised and persistent finish. This is simply one of the best whites produced in 2024 in Bordeaux.
About the producer
The Société Civile du Ch. Lafleur is the collective name for the Guinaudeau family’s wines and estates. These are some of the Right Bank’s most famous wines, including Ch. Lafleur and Les Pensées in Pomerol, along with Les Perrières, Les Champs Libres and Ch. Grand Village in Fronsac.