98-99/100 James Suckling : « Hard to believe this. It has a minerality and intensity like a great white
wine with so much chalky character that it gives an oyster shell flavor.
Full and racy. Shaking my head in intrigue. Wonderfully silky tannins. »
94-97/100 Vinous : « One of the stars of the vintage, the 2015 Larcis Ducasse is intensely
aromatic, silky and totally sensual from the very first taste. The
purity of the fruit here is striking. Even so, it will be many years before
the 2015 is ready to show all it’s got. Today, it is the wine’s total
sense of harmony that is absolutely alluring. A rush of raspberry jam,
pomegranate and blood orange leaves a lasting impression. The 2015 is
a dramatic, richly-textured Larcis Ducasse long on class and pedigree. »
96-98/100 Jeff Leve The Wine Cellar Insider : « Flowery with stones, licorice and dark red fruits on the nose, there
is concentration combined with power, elegance and grace. Not big,
but rich, sensuous and mineral driven. The fruits are ripe, spicy and
fresh. The luscious finish really keeps on going. »
94-96/100 Neal Martin, The wine Advocate : « It has an intense nose of raspberry preserve, boysenberries and an
almost honeyed-like richness that thankfully retains freshness and
delineation, when it could have been over-powering. The palate is
medium-bodied with very fine tannin, a little grainy in texture, very
well-balanced and graceful, gently building to a convincing, quite
minerally, blackberry and wild strawberry finish. There is superb terroir
expression here, an excellent Larcis-Ducasse that should offer
3-4 decades of drinking pleasure. »
19/20 Bernard Burtschy, Le Figaro : « Robe noire. Nez somptueux de cerise noire. Le vin est dense,
serré, fin, de la classe, le boisé est là, une grande élégance, grande
longueur aussi (…) Plus de fraîcheur que 2009 et 2010. »
