Chateau La Tour Carnet Red Dry Wine 2017 750ml / Bernard Magrez

Vintage : 2017

Grape : 60% Merlot, 37% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Cabernet Franc

Alcohol : 13%

Region : Bordeaux

Appellation : Saint Estephe 4e Grand Cru AC

GRAND CRU CLASSÉ EN 1855

Colour: A lovely bright colour with a very deep garnet hue.

Nose: A first impression of fruit with fresh red berry fruit notes coming through. After swirling, jammy hints mingle with discreet notes of vanilla.

Palate: A full attack with good tannic presence yet beautifully silky.

A powerful, fine and elegant wine with amazing length of flavour and nice balance in the finish.

FOOD PAIRING SUGGESTION : Beef, lamb, game dishes (deer, venison) or poultry.

Ideal storage conditions for your wine

Does cellaring your wines for a few years require a special skill?

No, not at all! However, while brief exposure to light never affects your wine, it is recommended to store your bottles in a place without too much light.

Too much exposure to light can accelerate the wine’s ageing and lead to oxidation, which adversely affects the taste of wine. This is what we call “le goût de lumière” (the taste of light).

VINIFICATION

A first sorting of the fruit is done in the vines followed by a manual sorting on a vibrating sorting table. High-frequency de-stemming using a Pellenc de-stemmer, then densimetric berry sorting. The berries are cooled using a cryogenic tunnel (injecting a liquid nitrogen spray). Transfer to vats by gravity-flow using a mobile bin. Vinification in small-sized oak and concrete vats. Pre-fermentation cold soak (8°C). Completely manual pigeages. Low temperature alcoholic fermentations (28°C).

Maceration time: 25 to 32 days. Ageing in barrels for 16 months. 30% of the barrels are new.