The 2017 vintage in Saint-Émilion
Vintage benchmark: 87/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: Frost struck the slope-foot vines: the plateaus saved the day, and the vintage must be judged plot by plot.
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.
Tasting
Little crispy red fruits and raspberry pips aromas on the nose. On the palate, the attack is soft and smooth. The wine is tight and shows a nice length. Finely grained tannins. Final is long and aromatic.
Blend of the 2017 vintage
- 90 % Merlot
- 10 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2017 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 63 % merlot, 23 % cabernet franc, 11 % cabernet sauvignon, 3 % malbec — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2017 sheet
- 13.5 % vol.Alcohol
- 39 hl/haYield
- 30 yrsVine age
Winemaking
Hand harvest. Storing of grapes in cold room during 24 hours. Transfer of the berries by gravity. 60 hl thermoregulated wooden tanks, stainless steel truncated cones, double wall of 60 hl. Malolactic fermentation: in barrels for 50% of the harvest.
Ageing
60% new barrels, 40% one-year-old barrels
Terroir
70 % of clay & limestone plateau, 17 % of clay slopes, 13 % of sandy slopes.
An offer on Château Soutard 2017
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Texts and documents 2017
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Visuals
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