Chateau Grand Village Rouge Bordeaux Supérieur

Le Grand Village is the original Bordeaux home of the Guinaudeau family, better known as the producers of Château Lafleur in Pomerol. The same team and equal level of detailed attention are dedicated to winemaking in this château in Fronsac on the Right Bank. This results in a red (Merlot/Cabernet Franc) and a white (Sauvignon Blanc/Sémillon) wine which far outstrip their nominal Bordeaux Supérieur status, creating some of the most exciting releases in the appellation.

The soils are made of clay and chalk and the vines are planted on both hillsides and plains. The average age of the vines is twenty years old. For the red wines, fourteen hectares of vines were replanted to eighty percent Merlot and twenty percent Cabernet Franc. The Cabernet Franc comes from clones planted at Chateau Lafleur.

Grapes are manually harvested with a carefully selection and a focus on quality. Fermented in traditional cement tanks and aged for fifteen months in French oak barrels, thirty percent of which are new. Nutty, spicy, floral, and fruity in the nose, the wine is ripe, round, lush, rich and fragrant in the mouth. The finish is long, lifted, and spicy, with layers of dark pit fruits, cocoa and a touch of salt on the back end of the finish.