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Wine Description
The Story
Chateau La Tour de By is one of the largest estates in the Medoc comprising some 109 hectares of vineyards with an average vine age of 45 years old. The vineyards are planted with 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot. There are two main vineyard sites – 65 hectares at Begadan situated 200 metres from the Gironde on gravelly soils and 44 hectares at St Chistoly on gravel, clay and limestone soils. The grapes for the grand vin ...
Vintage 1988
The 1988 Bordeaux vintage was a classic, firmly structured, and intellectual harvest across both banks that marked the beginning of a famous trilogy of sunny late-1980s vintages alongside 1989 and 1990. Following a mild, rainy winter and a cool spring that delayed flowering, a warm, dry summer provided ideal condition for slow, steady ripening, culminating in a dry, sun-drenched autumn harvest that allowed winemakers to pick fully mature, thic...
