Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2003
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Blend
72% Cabernet Sauvignon - 26% Merlot - 2% Cabernet Franc
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Date of harvest
15th to 26th September 2003
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Blend
72% Cabernet Sauvignon - 26% Merlot - 2% Cabernet Franc
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Tasting note
The Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2004 presents an beautiful ruby red color. The nose is very dense and ripe, it offers a combination of blackberry and "pain grille” with added hints of spices.
On the palate, this wine shows its harmonious structure. The tannins are well-balanced.
This vintage has already started to express its personality but it will need few more years to show all its potential and developing as it does ever more complex flavours to give increasing pleasure.
- Total surface area of the estate
- 90 hectares around the Château
- Vineyard in production
- 55 hectares in one block around the Château
- Average age of the vineyard
- 38 years
- Terroir
- Very deep coarse gravel
- Vineyard grape varieties
- 75% Cabernet Sauvignon - 20% Merlot - 5% Cabernet Franc
- Planting density
- 10 000 vines/hectares
- Grafting
- Riparia gloire & 101.14
- Vineyard management
- Mechanical ploughing of the soil Viticulture practices: Spraying kept to the absolute effective minimum
- Harvest
- Exclusively hand picked
- Grape sorting
- Two successive selections before and after the de-stemming process
- Vinification
- A long period of maceration (about 3 weeks)
- Aging
- In French oak barrels (75% new barrels each vintage) for between 16 to 18 months depending on the vintage.
- Owner
- M. François-Xavier BORIE
- Cellar Master
- M. Philippe GOUZE
- Head of Culture
- M. Marc DUVOCELLE
- Consulting Oenologist
- MM. Jacques & Eric BOISSENOT
- Public Relation
- Miss Emeline BORIE