Château Gruaud Larose, 2ème Cru Classé, St Julien, 2024

Name: Château Gruaud Larose, 2ème Cru Classé, St Julien
Brand: Château Gruaud Larose
Price: 258 GBP

Available Vintages

all 2000 2004 2014 2015 2022 2023 2024

justerini & brooks tasting note

While perhaps not reaching the heights of the exceptional 2022 and 2023, the Gruaud Larose 2024 is a commendable effort, offering good ripe fruit with plenty of pure, silky cherry notes interwoven with floral nuances. This culminates in a pleasing finale with fruit-laced tannins, exhibiting characteristics of griotte, cassis, and fine minerals.

critic reviews

93-95/100Lisa Perrotti-Brown,The Wine Independent

Deep garnet-purple in color. Notes of red currant jelly, fresh blackberries, and raspberry coulis sail from the glass, plus fragrant wafts of red roses and allspice. The light to medium-bodied palate is lively and plush with delicate red and black berry flavors and a perfumed finish.

DRINKING WINDOW 2028 - 2045

date of review 05/2025

91-93/100Neal Martin,Vinous

The 2024 Gruaud Larose, picked between September 27 and October 8, matured in 95% new oak. This has an impressive bouquet for the vintage with pure blackberry, bilberry, cedar and light pressed flower scents. This leans a little toward Margaux in style. The palate is medium-bodied, fresh and quite saline, with sappy black fruit laced with notes of black olive tapenade. Not a persistent Gruaud Larose insofar as there is no peacock's tail on the finish, yet it has a statesman-like classicism that you could not find 10 or 15 years ago.

DRINKING WINDOW 2030 - 2055

date of review 05/2025

93/100Jane Anson,Inside Bordeaux

Gorgeous dark ruby colour with vivid reflections, slow and steady reveal of grilled earth, savoury rose bud, peony, black tea and floral Cabernet finesse. This is a little softer than the recent exceptional vintages of Gruaud, but the fragrant aromatics have a ton of charm, and this shows skilful construction. Harvest 27 September to 8 October, 3.55pH, 31hl/h yield, slap bang on the appellation average, organic certified. 40% of production in this 1st wine. 95% new oak for ageing.

DRINKING WINDOW 2030 - 2040

date of review 04/2025

92-94/100William Kelley,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2024 Gruaud Larose shows excellent potential, bursting with notes of cassis, pencil shavings, iris and violets. Medium to full-bodied, suave and seamless, it's ample and pure, with a precise, refined pro-life and good persistence on the finish. A blend of 81% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot and 2% Cabernet Franc, it is the fruit of a growing season defined by fully 30 organic phytosanitary treatments and a harvest that concluded on October 8. It checks in at 12.4% alcohol and pH 3.77 (for Gruaud, a rather low number).

date of review 04/2025