La Petite Eglise, Pomerol, 2024
Petite Eglise 2024 offers suggestions of blueberries and crème de mûre, alongside notes of garrigue and leaf tea, accented by wildflowers. On the palate there’s a lovely core of seductive Pomerol fruit, textural and sweet, accompanied by exotic spice and blue fruit, with a flinty, dark chocolate note coming through. Notes of violets, brambles, and briar too. Silky tannins envelope the fruit supported by refreshing acidity and suggestions of gentle cedar and spice.
critic reviews
Deep garnet-purple colored. Sashay out with eager-to-please scents of kirsch, fresh mulberries, and red plums, followed by hints of rose bud tea and underbrush. The medium-bodied palate has fantastic freshness with impressive intensity and fine-grained tannins, finishing long and minerally. Nice!
The 2024 La Petite Eglise was picked between September 20 and 28 and matured in 70% new oak. This was showing a bit of reduction on the nose that made it a little harder to read, but there is certainly decent fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannins and impressive structure given the vintage and that this is a <em>Deuxième Vin</em> with plenty of mineral-driven black fruit on the vivacious finish. It is excellent.
The colour here is vibrant ruby and violet, this has so much precision and energy, sapidy, cherry pit, violets, again the textural side of the vintage is at the fore, coffee beans, espresso and black chocolate, notes that I have not written in many wines this year, No chaptilisation, 3.62ph, 70% new oak, harvest september 20 to 28. Love this, has a sense of vibration that might make this the 2nd wine of the vintage. If this comes out at a good price, run don't walk, as they say.
A blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, the 2024 La Petite Eglise offers up aromas of dark berries, spices and licorice, followed by a medium-bodied, compact palate with tangy acids and firm structuring tannins.