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  • Weather

    15° C Overcast clouds
  • Time

    11:10 AM
  • Wine average?

    94 Tb
  • Country Ranking?

    273
  • Region Ranking?

    143
  • Popularity ranking?

    202

History

This Hélène Garcin-Lévêque property is adjacent to Eglise Clinet and has a typical Pomerol plateau terroir of clay and gravel. Michel Rolland & Alain Raynaud are responsible for the winemaking. The style from this 6 hectare estate is big and modern, but there is something very impressive and muscular about these wines and it will be fascinating to see how they evolve. Aromatic and floral with notes of high toned berries, liquorice, cut herbs a...

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Vineyards

The soil is composed of clay and gravel, with iron deposits, which gives Pomerol its distinctive character. Situated on the slope of a hill, most of the vineyard stretches to the south-west of the building, at the break of the famous Pomerol plateau. It covers an area of 6 hectares. The vineyard is composed of 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc (or Bouchet).

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Winemaking

The wine is made according to traditional methods. It is for this reason that Sylviane Garcin-Cathiard chose wooden vats for Clos L’Eglise. Each batch is treated separately in a thermostat-regulated vat of 60 hl. Manual pigeage has been re-introduced; the pulp and mass of skins, known as chapeau, floats to the top during fermentation and is punched down manually several times a day. The wine is left in fermenting vats for a long time, and malo...

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