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  • Weather

    14° C Clear sky
  • Time

    00:13 AM
  • Wine average?

    90 Tb
  • Country Ranking?

    786
  • Region Ranking?

    450
  • Popularity ranking?

    238

History

The cross featuring on the wine label is a reference to Saint-Emilion’s religious background. This medieval town founded by a monk in the 7th century is famous for its monuments constructed over the centuries by various religious orders. The cross also symbolises the property’s complex history. Known at the end of the 19th century as Château Lamarzelle Figeac, the estate was rebuilt entirely in 1895, by a manufacturer from the North of France,...

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Vineyards

Located opposite the famous cru classé properties of Château Figeac and Cheval Blanc, Château Grand Barrail Lamarzelle Figeac benefits from an exceptional flint-gravel terroir with the additional benefit of an undulating vein of blue clay in the sub-soil. The clay ensures that the vine has sufficient accessible water as it grows, and enables the grapes to reach optimum ripeness. Saint-Emilion is the terroir of choice for the Merlot variety, wh...

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Winemaking

Laborious and multiple canopy management techniques are practised in the vineyard to control vine vigour, cropping levels per vine, fruit consistency and to ensure the grapes attain optimum ripeness. These include simple guyot or mixed guyot pruning, bud-rubbing, secondary shoot removal, leaf-stripping, lateral branch removal and where necessary, green harvesting, allowing only the healthiest grapes to be selected. The vineyard is managed embr...

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