The Texture · Bordeaux white wine
Louré2025
Still maturing in our cellar — released only in its drinking phase.
Arriving
Like midday in Paris.
Fine texture meets cool, limestone-borne freshness. A structured white wine with tension and length.
Measured and solemn, every step deliberately placed – that is how a louré sounds, and how this wine tastes.
The city in full daylight
The first glass
The flavour profile of Louré 2025
Louré is Sauvignon blanc, yet the grape's typical fruit steps back. It shows ripe, many-layered fruit and a fine, precisely built texture of remarkable calm. A white wine for the table, with a long finish and many years ahead of it.
Why Louré
A measured dance with a marked line.
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 louré is a slow French dance, measured and solemn, every step deliberately placed. Bach gave it a movement of its own in his third Partita for violin. Among our white wines, Louré stands in the middle, between Intermezzo and Caprice. It is made for the table rather than the aperitif, and before the meal it is happy to spend an hour in the decanter.
Louré shows that a white wine from Bordeaux may take up space, with texture and calm, without being opulent.
Johann Sebastian Bach — Louré, Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006
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.
The second hour
Given an hour in the decanter, Louré opens up, and in the second hour it keeps gaining depth.
Your evening
A wine for the table.
Dishes to pair
A selection from our recipe kitchen, matched to the structure and maturity of this wine.
Blanquette de veau au Louré – morels & tarragon
Coquelet en crapaudine from the grill, mustard-herb crust
Sea bream fillet, crispy skin – beurre blanc & braised leek
Pan-fried pheasant breast – choucroute & bacon white-wine broth
Stuffed quail braised in white wine & leeks
Grilled swordfish alla siciliana
Homard rôti – tarragon beurre blanc & young leek
Veal cheeks braised in Louré – celeriac purée
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.
Ageing before bottling
Not yet ready to drink
For us, a vintage is ready to drink only once an internal blind tasting declares it so. When that will be, we ourselves never know exactly.
Frequently Asked Questions · Louré 2025
Good to know
Technical data sheet · Louré 2025
| Wine | Louré 2025 |
|---|---|
| Estate | LaSuite aux Conseillans |
| Origin | Haux, Bordeaux, France |
| Type | white wine |
| Appellation | AOC Bordeaux |
| Maturity | after an internal blind tasting |
| Viticulture | Leased vineyard, not certified organic; the Domaine's vineyards are certified organic and HVE4. |
| Place in the Suite | Middle of the white wines, between Intermezzo and Caprice; “The Texture” |
| Musical reference | Johann Sebastian Bach — Louré, Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006 |
| Item number | LS-LOUR-25-075 |
The vintages
Louré 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.
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2024
Ready to drink
A wet, cool year with a small harvest, followed by eighteen months in clay amphora.
Drinking window 2026 – 2040View vintage - 2025 Maturing in the cellarThis vintage
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.