Chateau les Conseillans 2014 - Chateau les Conseillans

Home / Chateau les Conseillans /2014 /

CHATEAU LES CONSEILLANS

Chateau les Conseillans 2014
Côtes de Bordeaux

WINEMAKING TASTING NOTES:

This wine has an intense garnet red colour. There is a black fruit and spicy bouquet.

The flavours and textures on the palate are soft but powerful with both fruit and oak character contributing equally. While tasty at the moment this wine will gain in complexity and suppleness over the years, given a year or two of bottle ageing.

Where to buy: Pourdebon, Bodeboca ou Contacter le Château

Volumes: 37,5 cl – 75cl – 3l – 5l – 6l

87
Recommended

14.75/20
Recommended

GENERAL FACTS

Les Conseillans covers twenty hectares of woodland, vineyards and fields in the heart of the Premières Côtes de Bordeaux, a few kilometres from the village of Saint-Caprais-de-Bordeaux.

In 2011, the Chateau was acquired by Bruce Jackson, an American wine enthu- siast, and his wife Irina Krasovskaya. Over the next three years, Bruce and Irina, restored the Chateau, renovated the vineyards and completely modernized the technical facilities.

We believe that the vineyard is the major contributor to the wine’s quality and character.

Because of this we try to limit our interventions to the most classical of French vineyard techniques. We avoid weed-killers and use pheromones to fight against insects. Farming for flavour and picking on the optimum day are essential. Hand picking, gentle de-stemming, and thorough sorting are the primary practices. Every different grape varietal is fermented separately in small cement tanks. The extraction of the cap is a mix of pumping over and “pigeages” technique. The wine is given long ageing in French oak barrels, and a great deal of attention is given to the blending to obtain the most representative wine of the “terroir” and vintage.

Surface	5Ha34
Appellation	Cotes de Bordeaux
Geology	Gravels on Clay
Varietal	65% Merlot
	20% Cabernet Sauvignon
	8% Malbec
	7% Cabernet Franc
Density	5600 plants/Ha
Average year	35 years old

Vats	Concrete
Harvest	Hand picking
Date	October 2014
Barrel ageing	15 month (50% new oak)
Yield	47Hl/Ha
Blend	57% Merlot
	23% Cabernet Sauvignon
	12% Malbec
	8% Cabernet franc
Bottling date	March 2016
Production	670 cases

Alcohol	12.5%
pH	3.7
Total sulfites	87 mg/l
Sugar level	<2gr/l-Dry