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Le Ton Variation blanc 5
White wine · 100% Sauvignon Blanc · 2024
Ready to drink · Released 2026Le Ton Variation blanc 5
The tone of the house
Le Ton is the wine that emerges when you let things take their course.
Le Ton stands outside our Suite. Here we gather wines and barrels that go their own way: they convince us in the glass, yet fit into no cuvée. Too independent for the Suite, too good to disappear. Each bottling receives its own number, the Variation, and may taste quite different from the one before. What remains is the tone of the house, the keynote between the movements.
- Vintage
- 2024
- Grape varieties
- 100% Sauvignon Blanc
- Ageing
- 15 months, half in a used 350-litre barrique, half in a ceramic amphora
- Edition
- 1389 bottles
Tonight
At the start of its drinking window
- Temperature
- 10–12 °C
- Decanting
- Not necessary
- Drinking window
- 2026–2033
The first glass
What you taste
Little exoticism, more citrus and fresh herbs. Slender and fresh, with a lovely acidity. A white for fish and seafood, well chilled.
The world of Le Ton blanc
Like a sunny morning in the market hall.
For your cellar
Available formats
Le Ton Variation blanc 5, Edition 1389 bottles. Shipped directly from the estate — climate-controlled storage in our own cellar.
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Chilled, at the market bar
From the cellar
When a vintage leaves the house
A very wet winter and spring with an early, unusually heavy infestation of downy mildew; persistent dampness characterized the season. Flowering and fruit set suffered in some cases (coulure and millerandage), September was cool and wet — overall the smallest harvest since 1991. Nevertheless, the dry white wines often present themselves as aromatic, vibrant and fresh, and rather light in alcohol.
A wine is released here only in the year in which it is ready to drink — not in the chronological order of the vintages. As long as we still have the feeling, when we taste it ourselves, that a little more maturing could make it better, it stays in the cellar.
The terroir and the wine it yields
Where it comes from
The Sauvignon blanc comes from the vineyard plot we lease in Haux, the source of all our white wines except Caprice.
The blend
A single-variety wine, one origin
- 100% Sauvignon Blanc
For this place
A long road.
One fine day carbon neutral: there is a long road ahead. Two examples of how we travel it.
- Glass 405 grams. Glass is one of the largest sources of CO2 in a bottle of wine, which is why ours is light.
- Cork Diam Origine: cork, bound with a plant-based binder and beeswax. Free from cork taint, even after many years.
Precision & method
In the tradition of modern oenology
Aux Conseillans was for decades the Domaine of Jean Ribéreau-Gayon, whom the profession calls the “father 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.
Technical data sheet · Le Ton Variation blanc 5
| Wine | Le Ton Variation blanc 5 |
|---|---|
| Estate | LaSuite aux Conseillans |
| Origin | Vineyard plot leased by us in Haux, Bordeaux, France |
| Type | white wine |
| Appellation | AOC Bordeaux Blanc |
| Grape varieties | 100% Sauvignon Blanc |
| Ageing | 15 months, half in a used 350-litre barrique, half in a ceramic amphora; then bottle ageing in our own cellar |
| Released | 2026 |
| Edition | 1389 bottles |
| Drinking window | 2026–2033 |
| Serving temperature | 10–12 °C |
| Decanting | Not necessary |
Le Ton blanc begins where good cooking begins: at the market.
What comes next
LaSuite aux Conseillans · Saint-Caprais-de-Bordeaux