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Yet another exceptional vintage, although fresher than 2009 and more 'typical Bordeaux' with its notes of blackberry and tobacco on the nose and a meaty, rich mouth with persistant aromas of very ripe dark fruit.
A wine not to be missed!
Wine characteristics
- Vintage : Domaine de l'Aurage
- Year : 2010
- Appellation : Côtes de Castillon
- Colour : Red
- Grape types : 85 % Merlot, 15 % Cabernet Franc
- Soil : clay-limestone-sand
- Harvest : mechanical
- Type of viticulture : sustainable
- Contenance : 75cl
Tasting - Cellaring
- Appearance : garnet
- Nose : dark fruit, tobacco
- Mouth : meaty, complex and rich
- Serving temperature : 16-18°C
- Cellaring : 5 to 7 years
- Drink from : 2017
- Winemaking process : long maceration in casks
- Maturation : 18 months in casks
Food-matching
- Food-matching : rack of lamb with lentils
Domain :
Merlot is at the heart of, and represents the common thread of the range of different vineyards managed by the Mitjavile family. Low yields, clever vinification processes and meticulously careful winemaking inevitably lead to the creation of some great wines.
Appellation :
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Wines from Bordeaux are the quintessential image of French wine around the world. The region has 117,500 hectares of vineyards and produce 5,700,000 hl of wine in an average year.
The vineyards are wrapped around the Garonne, Dordogne and their shared estuary, the Gironde.
The climate in Bordeaux is temperate, with the vineyards themselves protected from the ocean by the département of Landes. Frosts are infrequent and while the spring and summer are sometimes fairly wet, a fine autumn is often the determining factor for the quality of the vintage.
The Bordeaux subsoil tends to be rather diverse. As a result, major vintages are often grown on gravelly hilltops, while the surroundings are made up of limestone or clay sediments les. Part of the complexity of Bordeaux stems from the way the grape type and subsoil combine to work their magic.
Grape types – red: merlot (60%), cabernet sauvignon (25%), cabernet franc (11%), as well as petit verdot and malbec.
Grape types – white: semillon (53%), sauvignon (35%), muscadelle (6%), as well as colombard and ugni blanc.
Recent vintages
- 2010: rich, powerful reds with imposing tannins. Great cellaring potential. Fresh, elegant dry whites. Fine sweet wines, fruity with fine acidity
- 2011: contrasting red with imposing tannins and immediate acidity.. Good dry whites that are easy to drink and refreshing. Rich, concentrated sweet wines.
- 2012: reds better on the right bank with its dominant Merlot grape. Drink fairly young while awaiting previous vintages to mature. Fragrant, well-balanced dry whites.
- 2013: a different, varied red vintage, but fine wines to be drunk young. Very fine and aromatic dry whites. Liquorous, ideal for racking with a magnificent balance.