Château Larcis Ducasse 2024 en Primeur

An excellent wine from this challenging vintage. It shows good depth and density of fruit with fine, silky tannins, but it’s nevertheless reactive. Juicy and quite polished, with a round core of fruit on the medium-bodied palate before a long, elegant finish. Lovely precision and focus from the filigreed tannins. 85% merlot and 15% cabernet franc.

Dense and deep fruit aromas with black raspberry and plum. Very inviting and concentrated. Palate flooding depth and a richness that defies the vintage. Great expression of silky creamy tannins and fine freshness, especially on the lengthy finish. A terrific wine.  

The 2024 Larcis Ducasse is dense, powerful and imposing, almost surprisingly so. All of the wine's intensity is in the mid-palate. Black cherry, plum, mocha, lavender, chocolate and cinnamon meld together in the glass, but it is the wine's mind-blowing balance that stands out most. This is another stellar showing from Larcis Ducasse. There's real potential here. Tasted four times. - Antonio Galloni. 

Deep, intense nose, dark fruits and lots of concentrated aromas of flowers and bramble berries. Lovely weight and texture straight away, velvety smooth, round and filling with a certain density of blackcurrant and cherry fruit. Creamy, a touch sweet as well as chalky. You can feel the minerality - liquorice, graphite but with flesh and some push. Cool and classic, there’s a definite charm but it’s still got structure and underlying power. Delivered with poise. Great definition with good ageing potential. A yield of 41hl/ha at harvest then after sorting and selection 26hl/ha. 3.55pH. - Georgina Hindle. 

Un parfum fruité très séduisant, tout en nuances. Il développe une certaine immédiateté au nez, avec ces 85 % de merlot accompagnés de 15 % de cabernet franc venus de la côte sud de Saint-Émilion, voisin de Pavie. On retrouve cette séduction première dans le premier contact tout en douceur de la bouche. Il se prolonge avec une ampleur particulièrement enveloppante, presque une sucrosité. Ce confort en bouche est très appréciable cette année, plus qu'ailleurs. La finale, poudrée et dynamique, s'élance avec beaux amers.

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. - Yohan Castaing. 

Dark ruby, opaque core, purple reflections, subtle brightening on the rim. Delicate black berry fruit, a hint of oak, blackberry confit and cherries. Juicy, elegant and balanced, fruity, silky texture, integrated acidity, remains persistent, has good ageing potential.