• France
• Bordeaux
• Medoc
• Haut-Medoc

Appellation: Grand Cru Classe en 1855 - Haut-Medoc
Location : Saint Laurent Medoc
Area under vines : 123 hectares
Grape varieties planted : 56% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Petit Verdot, 1% Cabernet franc
Age of the vines : 30 years
Planting density : 8,000 to 10,000 vines per hectare
Soil : Clay subsoil with a large proportion of limestone covered by a deep layer of Gunz gravel
Vineyard management :
-Detailed-oriented viticulture
-Thinning out of the leaves (1st after July 20th on the eastern side of the vineyard, 2nd after August 13th on the western side)
-Manual harvest in crates
Winemaking :
- 1st sorting in the vineyard
- Manual sorting in a vibrating table, followed by a destemming with a Pellenc Selective process Winery
- optical sorting grain by grain
- Cooling off of the harvest through a cryogenic tunnel freezer (spraying of liquid nitrogen)
- Vatting by gravity flow with a funnel
- Fermentation in wooden vats and small capacity concrete tanks
- Cold pre-fermentation maceration (8°C).
- Manual punching down
- Alcoholic fermentation at low temperature (28°C)
- Maceration for 25 to 32 days
- Aging in oak barrels for 16 months (30% new)
Bottling : 2017
Harvest dates:
-Merlot: September 28nd-October 07th
-Cabernet Sauvignon: October 06th-13rd
-Petit Verdot: October 13th