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2024 L'If, St Emilion, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Merlot 85%, Cabernet Franc 15%
Not ready (Drink 2029 - 2046)
Jane Anson
92/100
Shuai Zekun
96-97/100
Georgie Hindle
94/100
Antonio Galloni
92-94/100
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW
91-93+/100
Jeb Dunnuck
91-93/100
Neal Martin
90-92/100
William Kelley
89-91/100
James Lawther MW
16/20
Product: 20248013570

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2024 L'If, St Emilion, Bordeaux
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2024
Alcohol % 14.5%
Maturity Not ready (2029 - 2046)
Grape List Merlot 85%, Cabernet Franc 15%
Body Full Bodied
Producer L'If

Critics reviews

Jane Anson 92/100
Love the aromatics here, and vibrant ruby colour, this is a real success and bright spot in the vintage, one to look out for, fragrant, tomato leaf, peony, lilac, raspberry fruits, lots of energy and delicate juice, not a powerhouse but skilful and early to medium drinking. 3.37 ph. Harvest 4 to 8 October, really held on to push for maturity. 30% new oak, even after sorting they are at 39hl/h yield here on these clay-limestone soils. Touch of chaptilsation and saignée, showing that even with waiting til October to harvest these things were needed.
Drink 2029 - 2040
Jane Anson, JaneAnson.com (Apr 2025)
Shuai Zekun 96-97/100
Quite an aromatic wine with appetizing spiciness, white pepper, hibiscus and red berries. Juicy and bright, with a medium body, fine-etched chalky tannins and a long, bright finish. Very pure fruit with excellent texture and mid-palate roundness. 85% merlot and 15% cabernet franc.
Shuai Zekun, JamesSuckling.com (Apr 2025)
Georgie Hindle 94/100
Vivid purple colour in the glass, lovely bright rim with aromatic purity, crystalline pink and purple fruits with floral scents. Some nice green aspects and a touch of blue fruit, iodine and saltiness. Pure and clean, fruit has such clarity with lively acidity that gives a tang before the expression becomes a little creamy and smooth. A lovely, easy, filling and balanced example with lots of personality and still signature of the limestone soils. Plenty of clean fruit, and liquorice tang. Really great. Excellent texture, minty, clove, great freshness and graphite. Good momentum here. Same pH as 2023. A yield of 38hl/ha. Ageing 50% new barrels, 50% in one wine barrels for 12 to 16 months. 3.37pH.
Drink 2030 - 2044
Georgie Hindle, Decanter.com (Apr 2025)
Antonio Galloni 92-94/100

The 2024 L'If is an elegant, sleek wine. Crushed flowers, tobacco, cedar, incense, dried herbs and menthol give the 2024 lovely aromatic presence. L'If is light on its feet, with a bit less overt concentration than most years, but there's more than enough persistence to compensate for that, shaping the wine in a style that favors linear energy over volume. Harvest took place between October 4-6 for the Merlots and October 8 for Franc, a much more condensed period between two rains. Aging is in French oak, 50% new. Tasted two times.
Drink 2030 - 2046
Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com (Apr 2025)
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW 91-93+/100
Deep garnet-purple colored. Needs a little shaking to wake up notes of black raspberries & kirsch, followed by hints of dusty soil, dried herbs, and crushed rocks. The light to medium-bodied palate is lively and fresh with zippy red berry flavors and fine-grained tannins, finishing with a fruity lift.
Drink 2027 - 2037
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, TheWineIndependent.com (May 2025)
Jeb Dunnuck 91-93/100
The 2024 Château L'If comes from vines located just beside Troplong Mondot and is based on 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc, with the Merlot harvested between October 4 and 6 and the Cabernet Franc picked on October 8. This deeper-hued beauty offers terrific aromatics of ripe black cherries, darker currants, leafy herbs, and a beautiful sense of minerality. It's nicely textured, medium-bodied, has a ripe, layered, round mouthfeel, and sweet tannins. It's a beautiful wine in the vintage that's well worth your time and money. The alcohol is a natural 13% with a pH of 3.37, and it will spend 12-16 months in 50% new barrels, with the balance in once-used oak.
Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com (May 2025)
Neal Martin 90-92/100

The 2024 L'If was picked from October 4 to 6 for the Merlot, then October 8 for the Cabernet Franc. It aged for 12 to 16 months in 50% new oak. This has a fragrant bouquet, with mainly red fruit and slate-like scents. The palate is medium-bodied and balanced, with slightly chalky tannins and a little flesh on the mid-palate. Lightly spiced on the finish, this is a comparatively straightforward L'If compared to previous vintages that will serve as a fine earlier drinking Saint-Émilion.
Drink 2028 - 2038
Neal Martin, Vinous.com (Apr 2025)
William Kelley 89-91/100
Aromas of raspberries, bay leaf, petals and licorice introduce the 2024 L'If, a medium-bodied, supple and lively wine built around a tangy spine of acidity and concluding with a discreetly herbal finish. It's a blend of Merlot with 15% Cabernet Franc.
William Kelley, Wine Advocate (Apr 2025)
James Lawther MW 16/20

85% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc. Cask sample.

Fragrant red-berry fruit with a chalky edge. Fine tannins that build through the palate. Lots of freshness with a clean, saline finish.
Drink 2029 - 2038
James Lawther MW, JancisRobinson.com (Apr 2025)

About this wine

Saint-Emilion

Saint-Emilion

First officially classified in 1954, St-Émilion is one of Bordeaux's largest winemaking appellations, producing more wine than Listrac, Moulis, St Estèphe, Pauillac, St Julien and Margaux combined. Many of the region's finest vineyards can be found atop the steep limestone slopes of the village itself, although a fledgling band of garagiste producers are eschewing terroir to make small-batch, deeply-concentrated wines from their homes.
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