Louré
2024Released only when ready to drink — ready for the table.
Baroque texture meets saline depth. A white wine with shoulders, richness and maturity.
The Louré takes its name from a Baroque dance: measured, with an emphasised line, unhurried. The wine picks that up — Sauvignon blanc, but not one you would recognise as such. It grows on a single plot, surrounded by woodland and sloping west; cool nights keep the tension in the grape.
The long months in oval clay amphorae give it texture rather than fruit — enveloping, calm, with a finish that stays. It is therefore not an aperitif: it needs a dish that stands on its own, poultry, veal, fish in sauce or mature cheese. 1,211 bottles, drinking window to 2040 — unusually long for a Sauvignon blanc.
0.75 L bottle · €30,00
Louré, a baroque dance of measured, solemn character and pronounced line, stands for grave grace and noble expression – qualities that also shape this...
Louré forms the deliberate counterweight to linearity. It exists to show that white wine in Bordeaux may take up space – through texture, not through volume.
Johann Sebastian Bach — Louré, Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006
The flavour profile
A ripe, multi-layered fruit — yellow fruit and a hint of citrus, with a fine herbal depth. Full and gastronomic on the palate: an enveloping, precise texture from the long ageing in oval clay amphorae, carried by fresh acidity and a long, quiet finish. A white wine with stature that joins time and food.
Two years of ageing
2024 (white): 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/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.
Optimal drinking window2026 – 2040
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 & HVE4
The Domaine's vineyards are certified organic and HVE4, embedded in a 19-hectare ecosystem of woodland, meadows, water and vines.
A wine for the table.
A wine to conduct a demanding dinner to perfection.
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 1211 bottles. Shipped directly from the Château — climate-controlled storage in our own cellar.
For us, time is an ingredient.
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 simply do not make one of them; that is why the repertoire is rarely complete.
