Château Saint-Pierre 2019
AC Saint-Julien 4ème grand cru classé, 750 ml
| Grape variety: | Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot |
| Producer: | Château Saint-Pierre |
| Origin: | France / Bordeaux / St-Julien |
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Description
Saint-Pierre is one of the most underrated Bordeaux classified growths. It is generally of good quality. The 2003 "revelation of the year" got 91-93 points. The 2002 with its "beautiful fleshy black fruit flavours", the "very successful" 2001 and the "persistent and concentrated" 2000 all scored 89+ (Robert Parker).
Attributes
| Origin: | France / Bordeaux / St-Julien |
| Grape variety: | Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot |
| Ripening potential: | 7 to 20 years |
| Drinking temperature: | 16 to 18 °C |
| Food Pairing: | Coq au vin, Saddle of lamb fillet with herb jus, Spiced grillades, Beef Stroganoff, Cheese board |
| Vinification: | long must fermentation, fermentation in steel tank, Pumping over, Punching down |
| Maturation: | in new barriques |
| Bottling: | filtration |
| Maturation duration: | 14 months |
| Volume: | 13.0 % |
| Note: | Contains sulphites |
Merlot
Everybody’s darling
Merlot is the most charming member of the Bordeaux family. It shines with rich colour, fragrant fullness, velvety tannins and sweet, plummy fruit. It even makes itself easy for the vintner, as it matures without issue in cool years as well. This is in contrast to the stricter Cabernet Sauvignon, which it complements as a blending partner. Its good qualities have made the Merlot famous worldwide. At over 100,000 hectares, it is the most-planted grape in France. It also covers large areas in California, Italy, Australia and recently in Eastern Europe. The only catch is that pure Merlot varieties rarely turn out well. Its charm is often associated with a lack of substance. Only the best specimens improve with maturity. They then develop complex notes of leather and truffles. This succeeds in the top wines from the Bordeaux appellation of Pomerol and those from Ticino, among others.
St-Julien
Saint-Julien: in the heart of the Médoc
Although Saint-Julien often stands somewhat in the shadow of the neighboring Pauillac and Margaux appellations, wines from this region promise the best Médoc characteristics. It is also the communal appellation that is the most clearly and compactly structured. The area resembles a square, with sides roughly four kilometres long and an area of 900 hectares. The eleven crus classés occupy 75 percent of this area. Nowhere else in the Médoc does the grand cru classé occupy such a large share of the total vineyard area.
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.”
