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Chateau Grand Tuillac Elegance

Château Grand Tuillac Elegance, Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux

£18.99

14.5% | 750ml

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Chateau Grand Tuillac Elegance is round, fruity (black and red berries) with elegant spicy notes. A wine that lasts in the mouth. Fruit aromas are coming back after sip. Very pleasant !

The harvest is carried out using state-of-the-art equipment. The machine harvests only ripe grapes by vibration of the vine stock. A first sorting is carried out by this same machine thanks to a system of calibration and ejection of the undesirable parts by blower. A passage on a vibrating table with manual sorting is practiced. Then comes the sorting by densimetry in order to keep only the healthy grapes and at the right maturity. They are then transported to the tank. We practice a pre-fermentation cold maceration of 72 hours, in order to extract a beautiful colour and a maximum of aromatic precursors. Then comes the alcoholic fermentation (10 days) and finally a maceration under marc for 30 days which will give the wine all its tannic structure and reveal the qualities of the vintage.

15 months of aging followed by an assembly by the family and our oenologist: 60% in new French oak barrels, 30% in French oak barrels of one or two wines and 10% in concrete tanks. Bottling at the Château.

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THE REGION

The vine was introduced to the Bordeaux region by the Romans, probably in the mid-first century, to provide wine for local consumption, and wine production has been continuous in the region since.

Bordeaux wine growing area has about 116,160 hectares (287,000 acres) of vineyards, 57 appellations, 10,000 wine-producing estates (châteaux) and 13,000 grape growers. With an annual production of approximately 960 million bottles,[34] the Bordeaux area produces large quantities of everyday wine as well as some of the most expensive wines in the world. Included among the latter are the area’s five premier cru (First Growth) red wines (four from Médoc and one, Château Haut-Brion, from Graves), established by the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855:

Both red and white wines are made in the Bordeaux region. Red Bordeaux wine is called claret in the United Kingdom. Red wines are generally made from a blend of grapes, and may be made from Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit verdot, Malbec, and, less commonly in recent years, Carménère.

White Bordeaux is made from Sauvignon blanc, Sémillon, and Muscadelle. Sauternes is a sub-region of Graves known for its intensely sweet, white, dessert wines

ABOUT THE PRODUCER

In 1992, two years after their wedding, Sophie and Laurent Poitevin decided to take over the destiny of Château Grand Bert and Château Grand Tuillac. The two properties were handed-down from Sophie’s parents and Laurent’s parents in law, Philippe and Françoise Lavigne. Along with the properties, knowledge was also handed-down. Philippe Lavigne passed on all his know-how to Sophie and Laurent to uphold the family expertise. Over the course of the last 32 years Sophie and Laurent have kept on perfecting the wine fabrication and the management of the family business.

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