Product Description
Varieties
61 % Cabernet Sauvignon
29 % Merlot
7 % Cabernet franc
3 % Petit Verdot
The Vineyard
AOC SAINT-JULIEN
Second cru classified in 1855
AREA: 82 ha
TERROIR: The terroir consists of slopes of deep Garonne gravel from the Quaternary Period (about 700,000 years ago) where Cabernet Sauvignon is king – as befits a wine whose motto is “The King of Wines and the Wine of Kings”.
Garonne gravel from the Mindel I and Mindel II glaciations of the Quartenary Period.
CHARACTERISTICS
A relatively warm and rainy month of May facilitated the start of flowering. Not very hot summer, sunny July, light rains, average temperature. August was rainy with little sun and low temperatures (low mini-maxi amplitude). Sunny September, relatively high temperatures especially during the day, cool nights preventing the development of rot.
The Cellar
Barrel ageing : 18 months
New barrels: 80%
