The 2014 vintage in Saint-Émilion
Vintage benchmark: 89/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: The Indian summer served the cabernet francs better than the merlots: sound, fresh wines, without great depth.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Saint-Émilion. 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.
Blend of the 2014 vintage
- 65 % Merlot
- 30 % Cabernet franc
- 5 % Cabernet-sauvignon
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2014 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 72 % merlot, 26 % cabernet franc, 2 % cabernet sauvignon — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2014 sheet
- 13.5 % vol.Alcohol
- 32 hl/haYield
- 30 yrsVine age
Winemaking
Manual harvesting. Manual sorting. Gravity transfer of the harvest. Traditional fermentation in double-walled stainless steel vats, temperature controlled. Bottled on 13 and 14 June 2016.
Ageing
18 months in French oak barrels: 60% new barrels, 40% one-year-old barrels.
Terroir
Limestone and clay, ancient sands, siliceous clay. Vineyard located 800 metres from Saint-Emilion.
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Texts and documents 2014
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Visuals
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