Château Calon Ségur, 3ème Cru Classé, St Estèphe, 2024

Name: Château Calon Ségur, 3ème Cru Classé, St Estèphe
Brand: Château Calon Ségur
Price: 360 GBP

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justerini & brooks tasting note

Vincent Millet and his team reverted to traditional farming methods during the spring, a flexible and pragmatic approach that helped them conquer the threat of mildew and resulted in better vine health and yields. Calon Segur 2024 opens with a beautiful bouquet, quite revealing, exhibiting lots of glossy fruit, flowers, and fine minerals. Aromas of raspberry, damsons, griotte, forest floor, sandalwood, and violets create a captivating and complex nose. On the palate, the wine has good mid-palate weight, full of dark cherry and raspberry liqueur. The texture is long and refined, glossy and showy but rather wonderful, the juicy, vibrant core is cosseted by suave tannins, leading to a sensual finish. A very fine effort!

critic reviews

92-94/100Lisa Perrotti-Brown,The Wine Independent

Deep garnet-purple colored. It's a little shy to start off, needing some swirling to bring out notes of black raspberries and red cherries, followed by wafts of cassis, mint tea, and milk chocolate with a hint of pencil lead. The light to medium-bodied palate delivers very good tension and bright, red berry flavors with savory sparks and fine-grained tannins, finishing with a refreshing lift.

DRINKING WINDOW 2028 - 2042

date of review 05/2025

91-93/100Neal Martin,Vinous

The 2024 Calon Ségur was picked from September 23 until October 9 at 45 hl/ha with no breaks between those dates. It then matured in 100% new oak, as usual, for 20 months. This has a well-defined bouquet, with more prominent wood than previous recent vintages, which consequently obscures the property's DNA. The palate is medium-bodied with sapid black fruit tinged with black olive. It's quite lively, with a liberal sprinkling of white pepper and thyme. I admire the freshness of this Saint-Estèphe and there is decent length on the finish. This is not a top-ranking Calon-Ségur, but it should still provide up to 20 years of drinking pleasure.

DRINKING WINDOW 2029 - 2048

date of review 05/2025

92/100Jane Anson,Inside Bordeaux

Beautiful red ruby expression. A slimmer more finessed expression of Calon than in recent years, that gives it less estate signature than some, but this has beautiful cassis bud, rose petals, peony, iris, cocoa bean and graphite. Subtle but with real charm. 3.60 pH. 45 hl/ha. 100% new oak. Vincent Millet director, Harvest 23 September to 9 October.

DRINKING WINDOW 2030 - 2044

date of review 04/2025

93-95/100William Kelley,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2024 Calon-Segur is a terrific effort. A blend of 82% Cabernet Sauvignon (picked late, between October 2 and October 9), 9% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, it unwinds in the glass with notes of plums, cassis and iris mingled with hints of burning embers and incense. Medium to full-bodied, supple and layered, it's suave and seamless, with good depth at the core, powdery tannins and beautifully integrated acids. At pH 3.50 and 13.1% alcohol, it's also one of the most classically proportioned vintages this estate has produced over the last decade.

date of review 04/2025