It is no exaggeration to say that Lespault-Martillac has a great terroir. First of all, its elevation provides very good water balance, with excellent nature drainage for surface runoff. And there’s a fairy thick layer of gravel, 80 cm to 1.50 m deep, overlaying a mixture of clay and gravel. This deep subsoil is very cool and, despite the vineyard’s excellent natural drainage, there are no worries about suffering from drought conditions!
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The harvest at Lespault-Martillac is typical of our very demanding standards: no machines are used, of course, and white wine grape grapes are picked individually at peak ripeness in several passes. The red wine grapes are first sorted in the vineyard and then at the cellar on two sorting tables.
The newly-renovated cellar at Lespault-Martillac was designed for winemaking on a par with the greatest estates in Bordeaux. That is because ...
Our goal from the very start was to make great wine thanks to Lespault-Martillac’s truly outstanding terroir and its old Merlot vines with low yields of superb fruit… To take advantage of these assets, we applied the same principles that are at the heart of our winemaking philosophy at Domaine de Chevalier: traditional viticultural practices inspired by biodynamics and constant observation in the vineyard to make the best choices in light of w...
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