Arriving
Like a salon in Bordeaux.
Structure and finesse, never loud. A wine for decades, not for the moment.
Calm, measured, every step placed with weight – that is how an allemande moves, and how this wine is built.
Stone, bronze, river
The first glass
The flavour profile of Allemande 2026
Allemande is made from Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc grown on the gravelly soils of the Domaine. It is structured and built around clear fruit, around cassis and graphite: a wine of finesse that never turns loud. It reveals its full harmony only with time.
Why Allemande
A calm, weighty step.
A suite is a sequence of dances. Each has its own character, and only all together do they make the whole. That is how our estate is built: each cuvée is inspired by a movement of this suite and takes on the character of its form.The allemande is a measured step in even time, calm and majestic, every line clearly drawn. In the musical suite it opens the sequence of dances and the gigue closes it; with our red wines it is the other way round: Allemande follows the lively Gigue and the stately Sarabande. We make it only in vintages in which the Cabernets reach the necessary depth, and it needs more time than any of our other wines.
Allemande is our homage to structure: calm in manner, firm in build.
Maturity — how it drinks today
Still maturing in the cellar
Our principles
Why we take the trouble
Ageing in our own cellar
Most of our wines go on sale only once they are ready to drink; until then they mature with us, and we carry the risk.
Composed plot by plot
Each plot is vinified separately; only at the end do we compose the cuvée from them.
Time as an ingredient
Depth takes time. We give the wines the years in barrel and bottle that they need.
Organic & HVE4
The Domaine's vineyards are certified organic and HVE4, set within a 19-hectare ecosystem of woodland, meadows, water and vines.
The terroir and the wine it yields
Where it comes from
Precision & method
In the tradition of modern oenology
Aux Conseillans was for decades the Domaine of Jean Ribéreau-Gayon — one of the co-founders of modern oenology, founder of the Institute of Oenology at the University of Bordeaux (1949) and long-time owner of the estate. We work in that tradition: each plot analysed and vinified separately, the ageing guided under control, drinking maturity checked in a blind tasting.
With a little patience
A wine that deserves some time in the decanter: with air, it opens up.
Your evening
A wine for the table.
The mood to match the wine
A playlist for the moment
If you are a friend of classical music, here is a playlist that may suit your evening and the character of this wine. One possibility among many; listen in, if you like.
Just harvested
Not yet ready to drink
When we release Allemande 2026 is decided after an internal blind tasting. When that will be, we never know exactly ourselves.
Frequently Asked Questions · Allemande 2026
Good to know
Technical data sheet · Allemande 2026
| Wine | Allemande 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estate | LaSuite aux Conseillans |
| Origin | Saint-Caprais-de-Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France |
| Type | red wine |
| Appellation | AOC Cadillac |
| Maturity | after an internal blind tasting |
| Viticulture | Organic-certified vineyards, HVE4 |
| Place in the Suite | At the end of the reds, after Gigue and Sarabande; “Structure” |
| Item number | LS-ALLE-26-075 |
The vintages
Allemande through the years
Every vintage plays the same movement, each in its own key. The bar shows when a vintage opens and how long it carries; the line marks today.
The repertoire
The other movements of the Suite
Each cuvée has its own voice, from the rosé to the red that needs decades. In weak years we skip one entirely; that is why the repertoire is rarely complete.
We release each wine only when we would most like to drink it ourselves.Marc & Ellen Ruhland
For us, time is an ingredient.