2005 La Conseillante
France
Pomerol
Bordeaux
Red
85% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc
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Earlier this year, Managing Director Jean-Valmy Nicolas invited me to the first-floor tasting room to taste through a comprehensive line-up of both La Conseillante and their second wine, Duo du Conseillante. These notes are augmented by those taken at recent private tastings, including an excellent soirée at “Ten Trinity” organized by Omar Kahn for his “International Business and Wine” series of dinners in March. I have also included some notes taken from my Pomerol tome.
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This wine was tasted as part of our 2005 Bordeaux with Stephen Tanzer and Antonio Galloni event held in October, 2015.
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This chateau was one of the first in Pomerol to pick in 2007, beginning on September 17 with fruit that already had as much as 13% potential alcohol, according to maitre de chai Patrick Arguti. As at nearby Cheval Blanc, most of the juice from vines on sandy soil was declassified to the estate's second wine, which was made for the first time in 2007. The result is a silky, round, aromatic wine in a fruity style.
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La Conseillante harvested in a narrow time frame in 2006, bringing in the merlot between September 18 and 21 and the cabernet franc on September 20 and 22. Maitre de chai Patrick Arguti told me that the grape skins started to wither in the heat of early September and were almost too high in sugar, and that the rains actually resulted in more reasonable degrees while helping the skins get ripe. Following a selection in the vines and in the winery, La Conseillante produced 42 hectoliters per hectare. Arguti told me that he used neither saignee nor any concentration device, and that the level of acidity in the 2006 is still higher than that of 2005 and 2004, with a pH of 3.65. "We vinified for fruit rather than power," he told me. After carrying out a three-day cold soak, he did a lot of extraction at the beginning of the fermentation, then simply kept the cap wet "without doing any real remontage
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Maitre de chai Patrick Arguti told me that when the team here analyzed the grapes they saw that the degrees were mounting and made the decision to pick very early, "at the same time as Petrus," to keep freshness and a healthy pH. Very little extraction was done for fear of hardening the wine. There's a coolness to the young Conseillante, and yet there's plenty of silkiness underneath and a generous alcohol level of 13.8%. "The wine will age a long time on its acidity [3.8 grams], which reinforces the tannic structure of the wine," Arguti told me. The young 2005 is aging in all-new barrels. Arguti noted that the crop level was 37 hectoliters per hectare in 2005, and that in the two hot-year vintages of 1989 and 1990 La Conseillante made 60 hectoliters per hectare.
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