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Wines from Bordeaux
Wines from Napa Valley
Product category: Wines from Bordeaux
Premiere ProWein 2022
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Product category: Wines from Bordeaux
Product category: Wines from Bordeaux
Product category: Wines from Bordeaux
Product category: Wines from Bordeaux
Grape Varieties: 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc
The idea of PEZAT came to us because we felt that we could make an excellent, rather than boring, wine from vineyards that were just outside the Saint Emilion Appellation if we applied Saint Emilion techniques to the vineyard and winemaking. The wine is made to high standards using the same equipment and methods that are used for CHATEAU TEYSSIER.
Viticulture: The wine comes from a specific vineyard called ‘La Plagnolle’ which we converted into a vineyard that would sit happier in the Saint Emilion Appellation than Bordeaux. Vine density was doubled and the height of the original vines was reduced by half. If you take one step from ‘La Plagnolle’ you’re in the Saint Emilion Appellation, anyway. The vines are pruned on the double guyot system. The secondary shoots are removed and a run of green harvesting is completed in order that all
bunches of grapes are equally exposed to the sunshine, cropping level is at 45 hectolitres per hectare. The grapes are handpicked into small trays before transfer to the winery.
Vinification: Only conveyors are used to transport the grapes and the wine is fermented in stainless steel tanks after cold maceration. The wines
are aged in French oak for a shorter period than any of our other wines.
Anything Unusual: Bang for the buck! Wines from the Bordeaux Appellation – Supérieur or not – don’t get the kind of love and attention that we give this wine. Our clients say it better - “With lower than normal cropping, handpicking, double sorting and vinification at CHATEAU TEYSSIER, this has terrific fruit and even sees twenty per cent new oak. This rich, medium-bodied, deeply coloured, Merlot based wine clearly offers an extra dimension of quality at this price point.
Product category: Wines from Bordeaux
Product category: Wines from Bordeaux
Product category: Wines from Bordeaux
Grapes: 70% Sauvignon Blanc, 15% Semillon, and 15% Muscadelle (1.80 hectares hectares total, planted 2006)
LE NARDIAN is the product of a wager between our now-retired Consulting Oenologue, Gilles Pauquet (also consultant to CHATEAUX CHEVAL BLANC, FIGEAC, and CANON), and ourselves that a low cropped white would see similar benefits to a red wine. The first wine was produced in 2000, and it continues to sell out.
Soil: Clay over Limestone
Viticulture: LE NARDIAN is an atypical Bordeaux dry white wine that is cropped at 22 hectolitres per hectare – around three bunches per vine (about a third of the authorised yield in the area). The vines are situated on a perfect clay-overlimestone soil/terroir just south of the Dordogne River, near the village of Lugaignac. on south facing slopes.
Vinification: LE NARDIAN is made up of 70% Sauvignon Blanc, 15% Semillon, and 15% Muscadelle. The grapes are harvested by hand, soft-pressed, and kept chilled under 6 degrees. The juice is first racked then fermented in 50% new French oak barrels in a cold room. Production: 250 cases.
Anything Unusual: LE NARDIAN has, as one of its major components, Muscadelle - a cousin of Viognier. We manage to get an almost Rhone-style sense with the wine as its aromatic quality comes to the fore.
Product category: Wines from Bordeaux
Product category: Wines from Napa Valley
Product category: Wines from Napa Valley
Grapes:
2017 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot 10% Cabernet Franc
IF SIX WAS NINE is the Estate’s take on a Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon varietal wine. However, being from Bordeaux it’s difficult to live with just one variety! So a little Merlot is blended in to help the middle palate and Cabernet Franc to provide just that extra bit of lift.
Viticulture: From 2017 the grapes are sourced from all over the Napa Valley, including Rutherford, Coombsville, Angwin, Atlas Peak and Carneros for the Merlot.
Vinification: Vinification is very similar to those wines that are made in France. After sorting – firstly by bunch and then, after the de-stemmer, grape by grape, a long cold soak before fermentation occurs. The wines undergo their malolactic fermentation in new and one or two year French oak, and are aged in the same oak.
Anything Unusual: IF SIX WAS NINE is The Estate’s biggest production from Napa. This is classic Cabernet Sauvignon from that variety’s Californian heart. As Robert Parker says about the wine “Time to turn on the music”!
94 PTS, JAMES SUCKLING “Aromas of berries, stones and light coffee follow through to a medium to full body, integrated
tannins and a chocolate, walnut and berry aftertaste. Linear and focused. Nice tension. Better than 2013. Drink or hold.”
Tasting Notes: This Cabernet Sauvignon from our reserve range sources grapes from all over the valley; The palette has a clean, rich, fruit-driven attack, with ripe velvety tannins, excellent balance and long lingering finish. 2017, deep garnet, shows cassis, red cherries, plums, cinnamon, nutmeg, hint of strawberry on the nose; the 2018 a dark red robe, sweet spice, rhubarb, bell pepper, red plums cocoa powder and earl grey tea, and the 2019 with its’profound purple robe, spicy oak, violets, red figs raspberries, blackcurrants, touch of coconut.
Product category: Wines from Napa Valley
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29 Nov 2021
Le Dôme - New winery in Saint Emilion by Foster & Partners