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Wine Description
The Story
Second Wine of Château Villars
Origin: Saillans, Fronsac
Grapes: 100% Merlot Noir
Production: 11,000 bottles
Soil: Clay and limestone
Vineyard age: 10 years
Winemaking:
Manual harvest
18 day maceration with 2 remontages a day
Fermentation 100% in tanks in 28°C.
Vintage:
After a cool early spring, the vines grow and flowers very quickly thanks to a very long period of dry and very hot (April to July). The August rains were wel...
Vintage 2015
Complete 2015 Bordeaux report by Andrew Caillard MW “Next in line of a great series of vintages; 2000, 2005, 2009, 2010 & 2015.”
2015 is a wonderful Bordeaux vintage without the hype or hysteria associated with 2009 and 2010. The wines are generally expressive and generous with marvellous concentration and structure. Give another year in barrel, the wines should gain more fruit complexity and volume. The Châteaux, across all sub-region...
