![]() Traditional racking à l’esquive.Ĭabernet Franc (6%). ![]() Ageing for 12 months in barrels (40% new) with medium long toasting. Tapered double-wall thermo-regulated tanks. The grapes harvested were of very high quality. The rains in August helped the vines ripen and avoid water stress. A cool and fairly rainy month of June preceded a hot, dry summer. These conditions did not affect flowering, which was early and rapid. While warm temperatures in the winter favoured early bud burst, the months of April and May were hot and marked by very heavy rainfall. This great Pauillac vineyard is managed with sustainable viticulture and biodynamic practices on 32 hectares. The soils, composed of gravel outcroppings upon a clayey-sandy subsoil, are home to vines aged 30 years on average. The Pichon Longueville estate comprises 92 hectares, 72 of which are planted to the vine. She ran Château Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande from 1978 to 2007, when the Rouzaud family, owners of the Louis Roederer Champagne House, acquired the estate. May-Eliane de Lencquesaing, daughter of Edouard Miailhe, is an emblematic figure in Gironde viticulture. It was in 1925 that the Miailhe family, in the guise of Edouard and Louis Miailhe, acquired this property on Bordeaux’s Left Bank. A balanced and aromatic red wine from PauillacĪ 2nd Classified Growth of Pauillac, the magnificent Château Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande shines bright in the Pauillac appellation.
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