Chateau Larcis-Ducasse • St. Emilion, France
Château Larcis-Ducasse is the grand vin of a small, south-facing, Premier Grand Cru Classé B estate on Saint-Émilion’s C…Château Larcis-Ducasse is the grand vin of a small, south-facing, Premier Grand Cru Classé B estate on Saint-Émilion’s Côte Pavie, produced mainly from Merlot with a significant share of Cabernet Franc on complex clay-limestone slopes. The…Learn More »
$117
/750ml
2022 Retail Average
98
/100
2022 Pro Rating
From the first sip, Chateau Larcis-Ducasse 2022 comes across as a deeply sculpted Saint-Émilion, packed with black cherry and plum fruit wrapped in notes of tobacco leaf, cocoa and warm spice. The limestone plateau shows in the cool, stony backbone and beautifully shaped, chalk-dusted tannins, giving a vertical, powerful frame that remains poised and vibrant rather than heavy. This is a concentrated, modern classic that will gain in complexity as its dense core gradually relaxes in bottle.
Dry-aged ribeye with bone marrow, duck breast with black cherry reduction, wild mushroom and truffle risotto
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Château Larcis-Ducasse is the grand vin of a small, south-facing, Premier Grand Cru Classé B estate on Saint-Émilion’s Côte Pavie, produced mainly from Merlot with a significant share of Cabernet Franc on complex clay-limestone slopes. The wine is known for uniting ripe, opulent dark fruit and truffle-tinged richness with a marked limestone-driven freshness and salinity, giving it both power and finesse and excellent capacity to age. Sustainable viticulture, meticulous selection, and élevage in roughly 50% new French oak further emphasize the c…