Château Lafite-Rothschild 2015 AOC PAUILLACThe deep garnet purple shaded 2015 Lafite Rothschild is blended of 91% Cabernet Sauvignon and 9% Merlot and was matured for 20 months in new oak barrels from Tonnellerie des Domaines (their own cooperage). It is still sporting a lot of cedar at this nascent stage with a vibrant core of black raspberries, red currants and crushed plums plus touches of cigar boxes, violets and underbrush with a waft of tilled loam. Medium bodied and elegantly styled

The Château Branaire-Ducru 2023 is a Saint-Julien wine from a 60-hectare vineyard

alongside Cabernet Sauvignon in equal proportions (47%) and Petit Verdot (6%)

Château Villemaurine 2019 certainly promises the birth of a great vintage in 9 for the property

the new vat room and ageing cellar are state-of-the-art tools designed to bring out the very best in the terroir of this emblematic Pauillac estate

The harvest

it stretches into a long

delicate style

Château Ducru-Beaucaillou takes its name from its "beautiful pebbles" (beau caillou) terroir of Günzian gravel

benefits from an exceptional terroir combining clay-gravel

Bernard Magrez

The Indian summer from the end of August until the harvest favors an optimal maturity of the grapes

the wine has a very beautiful maturity of black fruits