Château La Violette, Pomerol, 2019

Name: Château La Violette, Pomerol
Brand: Château La Violette
Price: 1607.92 GBP

Available Vintages

all 2014 2018 2019 2022

critic reviews

95/100Lisa Perrotti-Brown,The Wine Independent

The 2019 La Violette, 100% Merlot, is deep garnet-purple colored. It needs a little coaxing to bring our notions of black raspberries, kirsch, and warm plums, plus suggestions of cinnamon stick, cedar, and underbrush. The full-bodied palate is elegantly styled, refreshing, and beautifully restrained, delivering very fine tannins and a mineral-laced finish.

DRINKING WINDOW 2025 - 2040

date of review 05/2023

95/100Neal Martin,Vinous

The 2019 La Violette has a well-defined nose with black fruit, pencil box, truffle and incense aromas, tight at first but blossoming with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with plusher tannins than the Le Gay. Well defined with a keen thread of acidity, this is concentrated on the finish with a long black pepper infused aftertaste. Backward in style, but it will reward patience. Tasted blind at the Southwold annual tasting.

DRINKING WINDOW 2026 - 2050

date of review 02/2023

93/100William Kelley,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

From a site with soils richer in clay that's planted with more Merlot, the 2019 La Violette is even more powerful than its stablemate Le Gay. Offering up aromas of plum preserve, strawberry liqueur, loamy soil, burning embers, spices and dark chocolate, it's full-bodied, thick and textural, with a rich, muscular profile and a broad, heady finish. This is a ripe, powerful wine that privileges impact over finesse, but it will give plenty of pleasure for admirers of the style.

DRINKING WINDOW 2021 - 2039

date of review 04/2022

96/100Jane Anson,Inside Bordeaux

Signature Pomerol in spades. The tannins are fierce at this point, closed in a fist around the fruits, but there is the most deliciously precise bitter chocolate shavings set against plump damson fruits, and tightly drawn cassis berries. Brilliant quality. Tons of potential, cooling eucalyptus freshness. Vignobles Péré Vergé.

DRINKING WINDOW 2025 - 2040

date of review 01/2022