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2006 Château la Conseillante, Pomerol, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Merlot
Ready, but will improve
Neal Martin MW
93/100
Product: 20068006026
2006 Château la Conseillante, Pomerol, Bordeaux

Description

La Conseillante's 2006 boasts all the finesse of a top Grand Cru Burgundy, with a heady perfume and rich, spicy, dark fruit aromas. It is incredibly fresh and harmonious, with bags of supple tannins supporting the smooth, creamy palate of intensely concentrated blackberries and crushed raspberries. The finish is long and incredibly pure. With so much tannin and structure the 2006 isn't as appealing as the 2005, although Jean-Michel says he wouldn't be surprised if it is the better wine 10 years down the line. One of the stars of the vintage.
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2006
Alcohol % 13.5
Maturity Ready, but will improve
Grape List Merlot
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château La Conseillante

Critics reviews

Neal Martin MW 93/100
Tasted at Bordeaux Index's annual 10-Year On tasting in London and then at the chteau. The 2006 Chteau La Conseillante had perhaps the most show-stopping bouquet out of all seventy-odd 2006s that I tasted at ten years. It explodes from the glass with raspberry coulis, kirsch, honey and marmalade, so much so that I am not sure if I would nail it as a Bordeaux, let alone a Pomerol! It is precocious and very attractive. The palate is medium-bodied with succulent ripe red cherry and strawberry fruit, plenty of black truffle, fine tannin and well-judged acidity. This is an opulent, decadent La Conseillante that is atypical of the vintage and yet you totally fall for its charms. What it might lack in subtlety, it makes up for in sheer charm. Tasted January 2016.Neil Martin - 30/05/2016
Neal Martin MW, (May 2016)

About this wine

Merlot

The most widely planted grape in Bordeaux and a grape that has been on a relentless expansion drive throughout the world in the last decade. Merlot is adaptable to most soils and is relatively simple to cultivate. It is a vigorous naturally high yielding grape that requires savage pruning - over-cropped Merlot-based wines are dilute and bland. It is also vital to pick at optimum ripeness as Merlot can quickly lose its varietal characteristics if harvested overripe.
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Chateau la Conseillante

Château La Conseillante is amongst the crème de la crème of Pomerol producers. It can trace its history back to 1735 and has been in the hands of the Nicolas family since 1874.
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