Château Petit-Village 1995

The 1995 vintage in Pomerol

Vintage benchmark: 92/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)

Vintage character: A dry summer followed by rain during the harvest: the merlots of the great plateaus held firm, and the wines remained classic and firm.

Overall reading of the year’s season across Pomerol. 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

The year 1995 was characterized by its precocity, thanks to a particularly hot and dry summer that a few rains in mid-September did not in any way disrupt. A vintage that some have compared to its birth to the 1990 vintage for its exceptional tannic richness, the promise of a wine with great ageing potential. Today the age of wisdom is coming, the fifteen years of slow evolution in the bottle allows us to discover a wine in all the amplitude of its maturity. All the hopes placed in this vintage are revealed today. Its red fruit nose blends perfectly with beautiful undergrowth notes and a slight leather flavor. This wine, due to its power and original complexity, develops the fullness of its evolution with remarkable roundness and smoothness. You can count on it to accompany a beautiful Bordeaux steak with porcini mushrooms, a wood pigeon salmi or why not a Bordeaux-style lamprey.

Blend of the 1995 vintage

Figures from the 1995 sheet

• 13 % vol.Alcohol
• 30 yrsVine age
• 30,000 bottlesProduction

Winemaking

Follows the meticulous work of vinification, plot by plot, for 25 days, in thermo-regulated vats which offer the possibility of personalized treatment.

Ageing

15 months in barrels, 60% new barrels, 40% wine barrels

Terroir

Château Le Petit-Village lies at the heart of Pomerol, on a magnificent clay-gravel plateau. It is a single-block vineyard of 10.5 hectares forming a triangle. Its terroir is composed of deep gravels coated with light sandy clays over a subsoil of alios known as crasse de fer, characteristic of the great wines of Pomerol. Every terroir has a grape variety that remains true to it. At Château Petit-Village, each plot, with its own personality, is planted with the variety suited to it. Merlot predominates on the property (75%): it provides the flesh of the wine and gives it its velvety texture, its roundness and its generosity. To this are added Cabernet Franc (18%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (7%), varieties essential for structure and complexity.