Pauillac · vintage 2008
The 2008 vintage in Pauillac
Vintage benchmark: 91/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A bright late season saved a cool summer: wines of unexpected freshness and aromatic precision.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Pauillac. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Tasting
This 2008 vintage, with a pretty garnet color, offers aromas of intense red fruits and notes of spices. On the palate, we find all the fruit combined with ripe and silky tannins. It is a gourmet, round and elegant wine which will require one or two years of patience to be tasted.
Blend of the 2008 vintage
- 69 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 31 % Merlot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2008 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2008 sheet
- 13 % vol.Alcohol
- 38 yrsVine age
Winemaking
Long vatting (around 3 weeks)
Ageing
In French oak barrels (fine grain) including 30% new oak for 14 to 16 months depending on the vintage.
Terroir
Grand-Puy-Lacoste enjoys an exceptional terroir. The soil is made up of gravels, that is to say alluvial stones that provide excellent drainage. The distinctive character of the Médoc soil is part of a history going back two million years, for the gravels are geological witnesses of the Quaternary era. These stones, brought down from the Pyrenees and carried by the Garonne, were deposited over time on the banks of the Gironde, its estuary. Today the layers, of varying depth, are made up of gravel mixed with sand and a little clay. This gravelly soil has the advantage of retaining heat and returning it to the vine at night, which eliminates excessive temperature swings and encourages the harmonious ripening of the bunches.
An offer on Lacoste Borie 2008
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Texts and documents 2008
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Visuals
For this vintage, the media library contains: packshots. High-definition packshots, labels, back labels and lifestyle photos are reserved for clients and partners, on the Compagnie Médocaine’s VinCod media library.