Prélude
2023Released only when ready to drink — ready for the table.
A rosé with backbone and texture, conceived for the table, not a trivial terrace wine.
Like the opening of a musical suite, Prélude sets the tone for what's to come. A salmon-colored rosé made from 100% Malbec, it opens with aromas of wild strawberry, white peach, and a hint of pink peppercorn. Its fine acidity and saline minerality make it an elegant introduction to the world of LaSuite.
A wine that should be served chilled, ideally within four years of harvest. It can be enjoyed simply on its own, but also pairs well with a BBQ featuring chicken or seafood.
0.75 L bottle · £22.00
Like the opening of a musical suite, Prélude sets the tone for what's to come. A salmon-colored rosé made from 100% Malbec, it opens...
The Prélude exists to show that an opening need not be light, but precise – and that stance begins already with the first movement.
Johanna Summer — Improvisation Prélude Ravel
The flavour profile
Salmon-coloured in the glass. Wild strawberry and white peach, with a hint of pink peppercorn. On the palate a fine acidity and a saline minerality that give it drive and length — a rosé with structure, not a trivial terrace wine. Vinification in large barrique gives texture without covering the fruit. To enjoy well chilled and young.
Zwei Jahre gereift
2023: a very good vintage for rosé
Optimal drinking window2025 – 2027
Decant before serving and pour at serving temperature.
Where it comes from
A single-varietal wine, one origin
Each plot is vinified separately; only at the end does the cuvée emerge. More about our terroirs.
Aged in our own cellar.
Aged under control in barrel and vinified plot by plot — then the years of bottle rest in our own cellar, until we consider the wine ready to drink.
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 longtime owner of the estate. We work in this tradition: each plot analysed and vinified separately, the ageing guided under control, the release only after proven readiness to drink.
Why we take the trouble
Released only when ready to drink
We bring a vintage to market only when it is ready to drink. We carry the ageing 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 needs time. We give the wines the years in barrel and bottle that they need.
Organic & HVE 4
Certified organic, embedded in a 19-hectare ecosystem of woodland, meadows, water and vines.
A wine for the table.
A wine for long summer evenings on the terrace, which has enough character to perfectly accompany a relaxed meal.
Dishes that pair well
A selection from our recipe kitchen, matched to the structure and maturity of this wine.
A playlist for the moment
This wine comes with a mood playlist on Spotify — a flowing companion as you drink. Listen in if you like; it isn't necessary.
We release each wine only when we most like to drink it ourselves.Marc & Ellen Ruhland
Good to know
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The Coffret Dégustation
Three movements of the Suite in one box — Sarabande 2015, Gigue 2016 and Louré 2024. A first path through our wines.
Edition of 324 bottles. Shipped directly from the Château — climate-controlled storage in our own cellar.
For us, time is an ingredient.