Château Lagrange 2024 en Primeur

A wonderful Lagrange from this challenging vintage. This has excellent depth and complexity, showing vivid berry fruit, blackcurrants, tapenade, spices and minerals. Crunchy and succulent with medium to full body and a long, succulent finish. Real poise.

Warm spicy oak aromas with dense blue fruit underneath. Some violet and cassis, with a trace of savoury complexity. Inviting. Mouth-filling and rich in the mouth with great extract of fruit to accompany the tannic backbone. Everything that can be good about 2024 is here - freshness, balance and elegance. Fine long finish. This will repay some considerable keeping after its year in oak and subsequent time in bottle, but may well be approachable in around seven or eight years, although has a life ahead of it after that. Matthieu and his team have obviously worked very hard here to achieve this.

Dark chocolate, soft herbal elements, blackcurrant leaf, pink flower scents and also some red berries. Expressive and open. Juicy, clean, structured and wide with fine tannins but really give a sense of outer edges in the sense of spice and tension. A little austere, in the cooling minerality - graphite and slate. Feels finessed, it’s delicately presented, certainly not chewy or fleshy, more elegant and charming. Not the longest, but there’s detail and precision there. A little knitted down. A touch of flesh and chew with both bitter and lifted fruit and acidity. Tasted three times and the sample at the estate was by far the best. 45% production. 3.51pH. (Georgina Hindle)

The 2024 Lagrange is quite promising. Deep and vibrant in the glass, with terrific energy, Lagrange offers fine depth and plenty of harmony to match. Dark red cherry, spice, new leather, tobacco and incense resonate on the layered finish. Tasted two times. (Antonio Galloni)

Based on 67% Cabernet Sauvignon, 28% Merlot, and 5% Petit Verdot, the 2024 Château Lagrange offers darker berries, spicy wood, chocolate, and tobacco notes. It shows a concentrated, rich, nicely textured style on the palate, with some chewy tannins. I love its density, and it's a solid effort that will have tons of character.