Bordeaux 2024: Château Laroque

Since the arrival of David Suire as director at the start of the 2015 vintage, Château Laroque has had a decade on the up. The ingredients were all there before. A large and varied terroir on a rocky limestone plateau in Saint-Christophe-des-Bardes in St Emilion. A storied Château with diligent owners in the Beaumartin family who have had the property since the 1930s. Yes, the wines of Laroque wines were always pretty good but following the 2018 vintage they have been routinely excellent. Frankly superb wines have been made here at Laroque in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023. What’s more they are always competitively priced and offer some of the best value wine in all of Bordeaux. Suire has been the catalyst here, bringing top division winemaking saviour-faire and leadership from decades of making wine alongside Nicolas Thienpont at Château Larcis Ducasse and previously at Château Beauséjour Duffau-Lagarrosse]. So how has Château Laroque faired in 2024?