Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2010
AC Pauillac 4ème Cru classé, 750 ml
| Grape variety: | Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc |
| Producer: | Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste / Fam. Borie |
| Origin: | France / Bordeaux / Pauillac |
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Description
Rich, dark ruby to purple red colour. Seductive combination of ripe blackcurrants (crème de cassis), smoke, toast and fresh oak characterise this excellent Pauillac, which has been a favourite among connoisseurs for years.
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Attributes
| Origin: | France / Bordeaux / Pauillac |
| Grape variety: | Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc |
| Ripening potential: | 7 to 20 years after harvest |
| Drinking temperature: | 16 to 18 °C |
| Volume: | 13.5 % |
| Note: | Contains sulphites |
Pauillac
Pauillac: Aristocratic crus
No appellation embodies the noble Bordeaux virtues on such a fine, almost majestic level as Pauillac, the peninsula resting in the Médoc. With Lafite-Rothschild, Latour and Mouton-Rothschild, it is also home to the majority of the five premier crus. The grandeur of Pauillac crus is quite clearly based on the Cabernet Sauvignon variety, which, with a share of over 70 percent, certainly dominates in assemblages, and also lends the wines excellent aging potential.
Bordeaux
Bordeaux: high prestige, high quality
With a total area of around 115,000 hectares, Bordeaux may not be France’s largest wine-growing region, but it is certainly its most prestigious. The range of wines produced here today is enormous: ranging from red everyday wines with a great relationship between price and quality to exclusive, and accordingly expensive, premier crus. Elegant white wines and noble sweet specialties round out the spectrum.
France
France – Philosophy in a bottle
According to French philosophy, wine should be an expression of the soil and climate. They use the word “terroir” to describe this. Terroir makes every wine different, and many especially good. French wine is regarded worldwide as an expression of cultural perfection. The French believe that humans are responsible for the quality of the berries, the vine variety for their character, and nature for the quantity. This philosophy can be expressed succinctly as: “the truth is the vineyard, not the man.”
