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Chateau Picard 2016
- Producer Chateau Picard
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Blend
85% Cabernet Sauvignon
15% Merlot - Country France
- Region Bordeaux
- Appellation Saint-Estephe
- UPC 3 61217 001912 5
Tasting notes
Crimson color, delicately smoky and spiced aroma, a sophisticated and balanced wine: a vintage of great style Recommended dishes: Red meats or dishes with sauce, cheeses. 85% percent Cabernet Sauvignon and 15% percent Merlot, it’s aged in oak barrels for 14 months.
Estate
Chateau Picard, (located in the centre of Saint-Estephe), was classified a cru bourgeois in 1932, and has always been conside- red one of the best wines in the appellation. This is the most recent vineyard purchased by Mahler-Besse (1997). The 8-hectare estate was chosen for its considerable potential and medium-sized area, making it easier to oversee production. Once they bought Chateau Picard, Mahler-Besse renovated the Napoleon III-style cellars and installed efficient winemaking equipment, incorporating gravity flow. The exceptional soil is clayey for the most part, which is quite typical of Saint-Estephe. It is also full of fossilised cockleshells and sea urchins.
Chateau Picard is mostly planted with Cabernet Sauvignon. The wine is subtly smoky and spicy. It is definitely high-class, and easy to identify because of its unusual label showing two flamingos standing on one leg, wings outstretched..
Chateau Picard is mostly planted with Cabernet Sauvignon. The wine is subtly smoky and spicy. It is definitely high-class, and easy to identify because of its unusual label showing two flamingos standing on one leg, wings outstretched..
Winery Technical Data
Appellation : Saint-Estephe.
Classification : Cru Bourgeois.
Area under vine : 8 hectares.
Vine density : 9,000 vines per hectare.
Grape varieties : 15% Merlot, 85% Cabernet Sauvignon.
Soil and sub-soil : ancient sands on gravel.
Care of vineyards and vines : traditional methods, double Guyot pruning.
Harvesting : by hand with successive pickings.
Vinification : in recently refurbished cellars with most modern equipment. After fermentation, the wine is left to macerate on the skins during 15 to 20 days for maximum extraction of colour, aroma and tannin.
Ageing : between 12 and 18 months in oak barrels, with 35% new barrels.
Tasting notes : dark purple colour. Delicately smoky and spicy nose. Elegant and well-balanced flavours. A bourgeois of great class.
Food suggestions : red meat, dishes with a sauce, cheeses.
Classification : Cru Bourgeois.
Area under vine : 8 hectares.
Vine density : 9,000 vines per hectare.
Grape varieties : 15% Merlot, 85% Cabernet Sauvignon.
Soil and sub-soil : ancient sands on gravel.
Care of vineyards and vines : traditional methods, double Guyot pruning.
Harvesting : by hand with successive pickings.
Vinification : in recently refurbished cellars with most modern equipment. After fermentation, the wine is left to macerate on the skins during 15 to 20 days for maximum extraction of colour, aroma and tannin.
Ageing : between 12 and 18 months in oak barrels, with 35% new barrels.
Tasting notes : dark purple colour. Delicately smoky and spicy nose. Elegant and well-balanced flavours. A bourgeois of great class.
Food suggestions : red meat, dishes with a sauce, cheeses.
