Chateau Rocheyron 2024
St-Emilion Grand Cru
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£0.00
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Arriving: Spring 2027
| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 0.0% | Closure: Cork |
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Critic scores
90-92 RP, 88-90 NM, 94-95 JS, 93 JA
Critic reviews
"We tasted a variety of components that will inform the final blend of the 2024 Rocheyron. Offering up aromas of sweet red berries, petals and pencil shavings, it's medium-bodied, pure and fine-boned, with chalky tannins and a mineral finish. Just under 15,000 bottles are set to be produced."
William Kelley, April 2025, RobertParker.com
"The 2024 Rocheyron was picked from September 23 to October 3 at 33 hl/ha, underwent less pumping over during extraction, and was matured in 10% new French oak and 10% in foudre. It offers red plum and crushed strawberry on the nose, with a slight confit-like quality. The palate has a fleshy entry, rounded in texture with pretty red fruit, but it lacks grip and backbone on the finish. As such, this latest iteration will be more for early drinking before broaching the excellent '22."
Neal Martin, April 2025, Vinous.com
"This has purity of fruit, showing plums, sweet cherries and raspberries with some spice on the nose, following through to a medium body, fine tannins and an elegant finish. Some chalk and stones. Bright at the end. A blend of 80% merlot and 20% cabernet franc."
James Suckling, May 2025, JamesSuckling.com
"As ever I enjoy watching the Rocheyron project showcase the character of these cooler limestone soils, and it does that expertly here, but this is certainly on the slimmer, more austere side compared to many vintages, with the footprint of the terroir very much in evidence, even in the colour that is soft pale redcurrant. Pure palma violets on the nose, chalky and precise, pared back and slim, red cherries, raspberries, lemongrass, with a subtle intensity, ash and gunsmoke, fine and tighly grained tannins, perfecty balanced and in place, soft and gentle unrolling through the palate. Mathieu Raveraud winemaker. 10% new oak, 10% foudres, rest older barrels. 3.45ph. 30hl/h yield, Axel Marchal consultant, 13,000 bottles instead of 20,000 (usual target yield is 35hl/h so not so far away). Potential upscore in bottle."
Jane Anson, April 2025, JaneAnson.com
William Kelley, April 2025, RobertParker.com
"The 2024 Rocheyron was picked from September 23 to October 3 at 33 hl/ha, underwent less pumping over during extraction, and was matured in 10% new French oak and 10% in foudre. It offers red plum and crushed strawberry on the nose, with a slight confit-like quality. The palate has a fleshy entry, rounded in texture with pretty red fruit, but it lacks grip and backbone on the finish. As such, this latest iteration will be more for early drinking before broaching the excellent '22."
Neal Martin, April 2025, Vinous.com
"This has purity of fruit, showing plums, sweet cherries and raspberries with some spice on the nose, following through to a medium body, fine tannins and an elegant finish. Some chalk and stones. Bright at the end. A blend of 80% merlot and 20% cabernet franc."
James Suckling, May 2025, JamesSuckling.com
"As ever I enjoy watching the Rocheyron project showcase the character of these cooler limestone soils, and it does that expertly here, but this is certainly on the slimmer, more austere side compared to many vintages, with the footprint of the terroir very much in evidence, even in the colour that is soft pale redcurrant. Pure palma violets on the nose, chalky and precise, pared back and slim, red cherries, raspberries, lemongrass, with a subtle intensity, ash and gunsmoke, fine and tighly grained tannins, perfecty balanced and in place, soft and gentle unrolling through the palate. Mathieu Raveraud winemaker. 10% new oak, 10% foudres, rest older barrels. 3.45ph. 30hl/h yield, Axel Marchal consultant, 13,000 bottles instead of 20,000 (usual target yield is 35hl/h so not so far away). Potential upscore in bottle."
Jane Anson, April 2025, JaneAnson.com
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