Château Mirebeau

Dominating the village of Martillac, the castle Mirebeau is a beautiful property of five hectares. It resists valiantly the onslaught of urbanization by offering an island of greenery to the housing estates that encircle it thanks to its centenary country hedge and its floral embankment, veritable green corridors for the natural flora and fauna of our vineyards. With its vineyard that surrounds the 17th century building, its bicentenary trees ...

Château Mirebeau estate is a hillock of just over ten acres of old gravelly soil lying over a complex sub-soil composed of clay, sand and chalk sediments with sea-fossiles. This natural complexity endows our Mirebeau wines with a deep-red colour and silky tannins.
Château Mirebeau lies approximately 38-40 m above sea-level and its sole production consists in red wines produced with 70 % merlot, 20 % cabernet sauvignon, 5 % petit verdot and 5 ...

Red winemaking:

First the grapes are handpicked and after destalking and crushing, the fermenting process takes place in small temperature controlled stainless steel vats thanks to the original yeasts from the vineyard ; and that lasts about 4 weeks. After the malolactic fermentation (due to indigenious bacterias from our cellar), the wine ages 12 to 14 months in french oak casks (33 % new french oak every year), topped up each week and rac...