2023 Château Larcis Ducasse, St Emilion, Bordeaux

Red • Dry • Full Bodied • Merlot (86%), Cabernet Franc (14%)
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Code: 20230600750001012185
  • Colour
    Red
  • Sweetness
    Dry
  • Vintage
    2023
  • Alcohol
    13.5%
  • Grape
    Merlot (86%), Cabernet Franc (14%)
  • Body
    Full Bodied
  • Producer
    Château Larcis Ducasse

Critics reviews

Jane Anson MW
95/100

Excellent quality, this is clearly going to age extremely, has depth, intensity and sculpted tannins, fine grained and sappy. Sweet character to the brambled damson and black cherry fruit, sage, rosemary, lavender, a great benchmark wine as ever, with salinity and grip. Tasted three times, once at the estate with owner Jacques-Olivier Gratiot. 43hl/ha yield, Nicolas Thienpont and David Suire celebrating their 22nd vintage together at the estate. 3.55ph, 50% in new barrels for ageing.

Drink 2030 - 2045

Jane Anson MW, InsideBordeaux (April 2024)

About The Wine

Merlot

The most widely planted grape in Bordeaux and a grape that has been on a relentless expansion drive throughout the world in the last decade. Merlot is adaptable to most soils and is relatively simple to cultivate. It is a vigorous naturally high yielding grape that requires savage pruning - over-cropped Merlot-based wines are dilute and bland. It is also vital to pick at optimum ripeness as Merlot can quickly lose its varietal characteristics if harvested overripe.
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St Emilion

Saint-Émilion (often written St-Émilion) is one of Bordeaux’s largest and most historic wine appellations. Officially classified in 1954, it produces more wine than Listrac, Moulis, St-Estèphe, Pauillac, St-Julien and Margaux combined. In fact, St-Emilion wine predates the Médoc, though early commercial success was limited by poor access to Bordeaux’s port. It is home to many small-batch, intensely concentrated wines.
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