Chateau Bourdieu 2018
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Item# 13929-18
Decanter
97pt
Tasting notes
Rich and generosity, Bourdieu No 1 offers a beautiful gamut of colors with intense reflections. Its expressive and complex nose, composed of over-ripe black fruit: blackcurrant, blueberry, fresh red fruits strawberry, red currants and vanilla notes. The palate is rich, structured and full thanks to round and silky tannins.
Vinification
Prestine grapes are harvested at high phenolic maturity to obtain the silkiest possible tannin. Once at the winery the grapes are sorted to ensure only the top quality grapes are processed.
After a long maceration, around 4 weeks, in temperature-controlled vats color extraction is encouraged by regular punch downs. This adds to the enhancement of the phenolic richness and complexity of the terroirs.
The final wine is then aged in French oak to add an additional layer of elegance and complexity to this pretty wine.
Ageing
Long ageing period, partly in oak. Quality control over the duration. Few racking and manipulation before the bottling. The objective is to preserve all the aromantic complexity.
Estate
Since 1464, the Chateau Bourdieu vineyard has flourished on the terroirs of the right bank
of the Gironde. Now owned by the Schweitzer family, it covers 75 hectares of AOC Blaye Cotes
de Bordeaux. Luc and his two sons Ludovic and Richard have the culture of Lavigne deeply rooted
in their genes and the taste for meticulous work. This is why each cuvée is made with the same
attention and the same passion. We thus find in each wine of Chateau Bourdieu the richness of the
terroirs and the quality of the great wines of Bordeaux. The estates vineyards are an average of
35yrs old and grow on a mixture of clay, limestone and gravel soils.
