Chateau La Fleur Grands Landes - Montagne Saint-Emilion 2016
Price: $19.25
| Producer | Chateau La Fleur Grands Landes |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Montagne Saint-Emilion |
| Varietal | Red Blend |
| Vintage | 2016 |
| Sku | 03741 |
Chateau La Fleur Grands Landes Description
Merlot 80%, Cabernet Franc 15%, Cabernet Sauvignon 5%
Tasting Note: Spicy, dark fruits with herbal notes combined with earthy hints. A beautifully balanced wine with silky tannins.
The Durand family has owned the seven hectare estate in the Montagne district since the 18th century. In 1969, M. Carrère, Mme Durand's husband took over the estate, shaping it to its current form. Since 1997, his daughter Isabelle Carrère, oenologist from Michel Rolland's team, has been running the estate having taught viticulture and oenology for 10 years.
The vines are grown on slopes in clay soils. The vineyards are carefully managed throughout the year, with debudding, manual removal of the vine-shoots, leafthinning and green harvesting all being carefully performed. Chemical fertilisers are not used; instead vegetal based compost is added moderately to the soil having monitored its equilibrium. A manual harvest takes place when the grapes are slightly overripe to get a better phenolic maturity of the skins and the pips.
Decanter: 89 Points
Smooth and supple, this has a nice texture and soft but generous expression of strawberry, red cherry and raspberry fruit. It's fresh and fruit forward, round and complete, giving nice texture and acidity and overall mouthfeel. Plentiful but relaxed and calm, a really enjoyable easy glass of wine, nothing not to like here.
