Château Latour-Martillac 2024

Characteristics and tasting advice for Château Latour-Martillac white 2024

Tasting

Color
The pale color is adorned with slightly green reflections.

Nose
Generous, the bouquet opens on notes of stone fruits and delicate citrus.

Palate
Airy and tense, the palate is marked by a saline freshness, notes of pink grapefruit and a beautiful length.

A fresh Pessac-Léognan white wine with a rare persistence

The property

The Château Latour-Martillac owes its name to a tower standing in the castle's courtyard. This tower is the remnant of a 12th-century fort used to control the road from Bordeaux to Toulouse. Owned by the Kressmann family since 1871, Château Latour-Martillac was granted the title of Cru Classé des Graves for both red and white in 1953. Tristan and Loïc Kressmann continue today with passion and ambition the family tradition and the art of making great red and white wines from Graves.

The vineyard

A reference among the wines of Pessac-Léognan, Château Latour-Martillac oversees a 54-hectare vineyard, 45 of which are dedicated to red wine and 9 to white. The property benefits from an exceptional location within the appellation. The Martillac plateau is composed of a mosaic of quaternary gravels, made up of flint, quartz, lydian and jasper. These soils are the preferred terroir of cabernet sauvignon and petit verdot. The other main terroir of the property is located near the Garonne where clay-limestone and gravelly soils are found on the surface. This is where the merlot and the property's white grape varieties, sauvignon blanc and sémillon, are planted.

The vintage

The mild and very rainy winter of 2024 (912 mm) gave way to a similarly wet spring, although mildew was controlled. Bud break began in mid-March, followed by rapid growth in April, then slowed in May. Late flowering (May 29 - June 10) preceded a cool summer, conducive to slow and homogeneous maturation. The harvest, interspersed with rains, took place from September 4 to October 4.

Vinification and aging

Aging in new barrels (including 20% new).

Blend

Sauvignon blanc (60%)
Sémillon (40%).