2012 Vintage
Tasting notes
The color is deep. The nose reveals fresh fruits aromas melted with vanilla notes. On the palate, fruity flavors are enhanced by fine fresh tannins. This delightful vintage can already be opened but also be kept for a few years.
Informations
Varietals
45% Cabernet Sauvignon
45% Merlot
10% Cabernet Franc
Aging
1 year in French oak barrels
25% new oak barrels
75% one-year-old oak barrels
Harvest proportion
47% BriO of Cantenac Brown
Harvest dates
Merlot: Oct. 1rst – 12th
Cabernet Franc: Oct. 7th
Cabernet Sauvignon: Oct. 8th – 17th
Year 2012
At first, the 2012 vintage was to be difficult: whether our oceanic climate would have been forgotten in the last few years, we’ve been definitely reminded of our location, which is indeed rather good to produce great quality wines, but sometimes also quite humid. The vineyard had seldom needed such an amount of work, and all along the season, we kept going all through the vineyard. On the first 2 weeks of July, to compete the lack of sun, over 140 people came to “écharder” 100% of the vineyard.
End of August, as we wanted to definitely homogenize the maturity, it’s been decided to “clean” clusters from each single still green and pink berry, in order to only keep the best. Finally, thanks to such a precise work and naturally low yields, maturity was reached only 1 week later than usual. Each single day, vinestock after vinestock and bunch by bunch, vintners made even better from what Mother Nature had given. Even if some rains at the end of September araised some doubts, the knowledge and experience of our technical team made it possible to keep cold blood. The work in the vineyard througout the year is very beneficial and allow us to obtain a healthy and qualitative harvest.