Chateau Rocheyron Red Dry Wine 2016 - Saint Emilion Grand Cru

Partners Since 2010, Silvio Denz and the Danish oenologist Peter Sisseck have been working together to forge the destiny of Château Rocheyron, a historic estate on the plateau that is home to Saint-Émilion’s greatest wines. The men combine their expertise to enable these eight hectares of vines to reveal their full potential every year. Grown using biodynamics since 2014, the estate began to convert to organic cultivation three years later. At Rocheyron, this pair and their team work closely with the vineyard to create an increasingly precise interpretation of the terroir.

Back to their Roots In taking over Château Rocheyron, Peter Sisseck has returned to a land which he knew well before he left for Spain, where he was responsible for creating the famous wine ‘Pingus’. As the man responsible for the winemaking process, he has opted for the Bordeaux tradition at its purest to produce a complex, refined wine with fresh aromas. This work makes use of new equipment that is the result of his partnership with Silvio Denz. The vat house was entirely renovated in 2011. Equipped with cutting-edge technology, its small concrete vats allow for extremely precise winemaking. A vast barrel store was also built to mature the estate’s wines in French oak barrels.

Appellation : Saint-Emilion Grand Cru

Surface area : 8.45 ha

Soil : the estate lies entirely on the limestone plateau (calcosols on asteria limestone) which dates back to the Lower Oligocene.

Grape variety : 70% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc

Average age of vines : about 45 years

Environmental integrity : organic viticulture

Yield: less than 30 hl/ha

Vinification: low-temperature vinification processes with gentle extraction, vatting for three weeks with some pumping over (remontage)

Consultant oenologist: Peter SISSECK (owner of Pingus in Spain)

Maturing: 14 months, 50% in new French oak barrels

Planting density : 6000 vinestocks/hectare

Cultivation and harvesting : double guyot pruning, cultivation of soil and grass cover, debudding, thinning and stripping by hand, manual harvesting using trays and sorting tables (one by optical sorting)