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Wine Description
The Story
The 30 hectare estate is set on a mix of gravel, iron and mineral soil with a scattering of sand throughout. Planted to mostly Cabernet Sauvignon with a large portion of Merlot and a small portion of Cabernet Franc, the blend sees all three grapes mixed to create the wine best representing the terroir of the site. Fermentation takes place in cemernt tanks, while the wine is sent for a year to mostly old oak barrels. The resulting wines are sav...
Wine Information
1964 Château Croizet-Bages (Pauillac)
Like many other châteaux Croizet-Bages presents on its labels, some of the medals its wines have won. In general these are mainly medals from exhibitions and competitions: in this case a silver medal from the Paris Exhibition of 1878 and a gold medal from 1889. Those precious medals have no real correlation to the wine inside the bottle, only some hopeless commercial value.
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Vintage 1964
Pour beaucoup, le millésime 1964 évoque des images d’une année vraiment unique. C’était cela en Bourgogne, mais pas à Bordeaux, même si le ministre français de l’Agriculture a déclaré que c’était le millésime du siècle à Bordeaux. Il a fait sa déclaration avant que les pluies d’automne ne commencent à tomber. Le millésime a été, en tout cas, très bon, rappelant assez celui de 1962, dont les grandes récoltes produisaient d’excellents vins.
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