Tasting Notes from the Winery: “Delicious with abundant fruit, excellent balance and silky tannins. Serve with game, duck, chicken or meaty salads.”

Aging: Meticulously selected grapes entered first a 5-day cold maceration, followed by temperature-controlled fermentation to retain the purity of fruit, elegance and freshness. Long and gentle 40-day extraction, parcel by parcel vinification, racking three times and aging with oak staves for 20 months prior bottling and additional aging for 18 months in bottles.

About the Winery: Château Puybarbe is situated at the highest elevation of the Côtes de Bourg appellation looking over the Gironde estuary on the right bank of Bordeaux. The 41-hectare vineyard comprises predominantly Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon and is cultivated according to sustainable philosophies, is Biocyclic Vegan certified and in last year of organic conversion. Château Puybarbe uses no herbicides or chemical fertilizers and is both HVE (High Environmental Value) and ISO 14001 certified since 2017. A modern winery was inaugurated for the year 2001’s harvest. It integrates many technical advances, at the service of a traditional know-how respectful of the grapes and the wine, and with a clear objective to be one of the best producers in AOP “Côtes de Bourg”.

Decanter: “Plummy nose showing dark bramble and raspberry aromas with a touch of leafy character. Dense and juicy palate, ripe.”