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Bordeaux Left Bank Flashcards

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Calon Segur

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3rd Saint Estephe
- Le Marquis de Calon Segur
- Calon-Ségur has not dramatically changed in size since the 1855 classification. It consists of a single, walled
parcel of vines adjacent to the château, standing at a meager 12 meters above sea level.
- 55 ha: 67% Cab Sauv, 32% Merlot, 1% PV
- Style: sturdy representation of
great Saint-Estèphe. Calon Segur is aged 18-20 months in new French Oak. 18 to 21 days of macerations before fermentation.

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Chateau Cantemerle

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5th growth Hait Medoc
- 94 ha: 60% Cab Sauv, 30% Merlot, 6% Cab Franc, 4% Petit Verdot.
- Second Wine: Les Allées de Cantemerle: Inaugural vintage 1995.
- Style: consistent, classic style of Bordeaux. the wine is treated to
2/2
12-16 months in 50% new oak. Fining with gelatin occurs prior to bottling, but the wine is not filtered.

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Chateau Chasse Spleen

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Moulis en Medoc
- No Classification
- Named one of six Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel properties in 1932, Château Chasse-Spleen is one of the prime estates of the Moulis appellation.
- 113 ha: 73% Cab Sauv, 20% Merlot, 7% Petit Verdot.
Second Wine: L’Oratoire de Chasse-Spleen 1979.
- Style: solid wine. It is a traditionally styled, medium-bodied, classic Bordeaux that has maintained its sense of balance and savory qualities even in recent warm vintages. Typically, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot appear in nearly equal proportions in the
grand vin
blend, and the wine ages in 40% new oak for 12-16 months.

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Chateau Cos d’Estournel

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  • 2nd Growth Saint Estephe.
  • Super Second
  • 91 ha: 75% Cab Sauv, 22% Merlot, 1.5% Cab Franc, 1.5% Petit Verdot.
    Second Wine: Les Pagodes de Cos 1994.
  • Style: complete departure from rustic, sturdy style of Saint Estephe. Wines are polished, ample, modern and super concentrated. Recent vintages have focused more on Cabernet Sauvignon, with the grape amounting to 75-85% of the
    2/2
    blend, but from the ‘90s through 2002 the
    grand vin
    more likely contained 35-45% Merlot. 80% new oak is the rule.
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Chateau Ducru Beaucaillou

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2nd Growth Saint Julien.
- Super Second
- It was one a part of the Beychevelle.
- Emile Peynaud.
- TCA contamination during the late 80s and early 90s.
- 75 ha: 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot.
- Second wine: Croix de Beaucaillou.
Style: Château Ducru-Beaucaillou typically contains 80-85% Cabernet Sauvignon and ages for 18 months in 50-80% new oak. A Parker favorite in the new millennium.

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Chateaux Giscours

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3rd growth, Medoc
- Scandal 1995: oak chips and fraud case of mixing from Haut Medoc in their second wine.
- 94 ha in Margaux, 50ha Haut Medoc. 60% Cab Sauv, 32 % Merlot, 5% Cab Franc, 3% Petit Verdot.
- Second wine: La Sirene de Giscours.
- Style: recent vintages have focused more on heft and concentration than typical Margaux elegance. The
grand vin
ages for 15-18 months in 55% new French oak. For La Sirène and Le Haut-Médoc the new oak is reduced to 20%.

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Chateau Lafite Rothshild

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1st Growth Pauillac.
- It is the largest first growth today, with 112 ha under vine. The word “Lafite” derives from
faîte, an old Médocain word indicating a ridge and a fitting description for the château—it occupies a 27-meter gravel
croupe, one of the highest sites in Pauillac.
- 112 ha: 70% Cab Sauv, 25% Merlot, 3% Cab Franc, 2% Petit Verdot.
- Second Wine: Carruades de Lafite.
Style: elegant, subtle counterpoint to the power of Chateau Latour. The blend of the grand vin changes every vintage. Last vintages 80 to 98% Cabernet Sauvignon.
Fermentation occurs in stainless steel and wood vats, and the estate does not practice cold-soaking or pigeage. The
grand vin
wines rest in new
barriques (from the château’s own cooperage) for 18-20 months prior to a light fining before bottling. The second wine contains up to 50% merlot.

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Chateau Lascombes

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Second Growth Medoc (Margaux).
- 84 ha: 50% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot.
Second Wine: Chevalier de Lascombes.
Style: Unusual for Margaux, the Château Lascombes
grand vin
blend is composed almost equally of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. It is aged in 80% new oak, and the style of2000s-era Lascombes has been modern and rich, focusing on high extraction, ripeness, and overt oak.

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Chateau Latour

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1st Growth Pauillac
- The pride of the property is L’Enclos, a 47-ha vineyard immediately surrounding the tower and château. It crowns a 16-meter-high
croupe
of gravel and is the primary source for the Château Latour
grand vin. No more in the En primeur tasting.
74 ha: 80% Cabernet Sauv, 18% Merlot, 2% cab franc, 2 % PV.
Second wine: Le Forts de Latour.
Style: powerful and long lived style of Bordeaux. The top wine contains at least 85% of Cab Sauv, avg 50 years old vines.
Maceration lasts around 4 weeks. Malolactic fermentation also occurs in tank, prior to a 20-22 month
élevage
in 80-100% new wood.(Les Forts de Latour receives only 50% new wood, and typically the blend for the second wine includes up to30% Merlot.) A light fining with egg white occurs in barrel, but the wines have not been filtered since 2000.

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Chateau Leoville Barton

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2nd Growth Saint Julien.
50ha: 74% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot, 3% Cab Franc.
Second wine: La reserve Leoville Barton.
Style: the most classic of the 3 Leoville. The wine spends 20 months in 50% new french oak.

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Chateau Leoville Las Cases

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2nd Growth Saint Julien
- 97 ha: 65% Cab Sauv, 24% Merlot, 10% Cab Franc, 1% PV.
- Second wine: Malolactic fermentation also occurs in tank, prior to a 20-22 month
élevage
in 80-100% new wood. A light fining with egg white occurs in barrel, but the wines have not been filtered since 2000.
Style: Château Léoville-Las-Cases is a Pauillac-like style of Saint-Julien, and it veers toward concentration and richness rather than elegance. Cabernet Sauvignon usually accounts for at least 75% of the
grand vin, and the top wine is aged in 75% new oak. The estate pioneered green harvest in the late 80s. Reverse osmosis.

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Chateau Leoville Poyferre

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  • 2nd Growth, Saint Julien.
  • 80 ha: 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% merlot, 8% Petit Verdot, 2% Cab Franc.
  • Second wine: Le Pavillon de Leoville Poyferre.
  • Style: Château Léoville-Poyferré is the most hedonistic, opulent, and modern wine of the three Léovilles.
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Chateau Lynch Bages

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5 th Growth, Pauillac.
- The 2009 Liv-Ex re-creation of the price-based classification promoted Lynch-Bages to second growth.
- 110 ha: 76% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, 7% Cab Franc, 2% Petit Verdot.
Second wine: Echo de Lynch Bages (2008).
Style: Château Lynch-Bages is made in an modern and immediate style. The grand vin
is aged in 70% new oak and typically contains 70-80% Cabernet Sauvignon.

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Chateau Malescot Saint Exupery

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3rd growth Margaux
Michel Rolland consulting.
23.5 ha: 50% Cab Sauv, 35% Merlot, 10% Cab Franc, 5% Petit Verdot.
Second Wine: Le Dame de Malescot.
Style: The wines of Malescot-St-Exupéry are ripe, dark in color, thickly textured, and concentrated—the estate is one of the last in Margaux to harvest, and the team is well-known for the use of concentration through reverse osmosis. 100% new oak is employed for the grand vin.

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Chateau Margaux

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1st Margaux
- In 1977 André Mentzelopoulos purchased Château Margaux and his family has restored its name and reputation as one of the preeminent wines of Bordeaux and the world.
- 80 ha in Margaux, 12 ha Bordeaux AOP: 75% Cabernet Sauv, 20% Merlot, 5% CF/PV.
Second wine: Pavillon Rouge 1978.
Style: opulent and perfume rather than power. Stainless steel, large cask fermentation; maceration up to 3 weeks, wines are never filtered.

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Chateau Montrose

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2nd Saint Estephe
The château itself lies in view of the Gironde, with its vineyards sloping down toward the water’s edge. Unusually for the Médoc, its vines lie within one single parcel.
- 95 ha: 65% Cab Sauv, 30% Merlot, 4% Cab Franc, 1 % PV.
Second wine: La Dame de Montrose
- Style: Austere, true expression of Saint Estephe. The estate does not believe in using concentrators, but the ripeness levels are nonetheless high.
Élevage
lasts for 18 months in about 60% new oak. The amount of Merlot in the
grand vin
hovers between 25-40%.

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Chateau Mouton Rothshild

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1st Pauillac
Mouton means “sheep,” an animal that appears on many of its labels, but the word here derives from the old
motte, or mound. Like Lafite, it is named for its elevated position atop a 27-meter-high croupe. Elevated 1st in 1973.
- 90 ha: principally split into two blocks: the Grand Plateau and the Carruades Plateau (adjacent to Lafite). 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot.
Second wine: Le Petit Mouton de Rothshild.
Style: the wine is often described as fleshy, rich, opulent, and showy. Modern vintages tend to show more oak sweetness and up-front spice than the other first growths. Fermentation occurs in wooden vats and élevage
in new oak lasts for around 18 months prior to fining and light filtration.

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Chateau Palmer

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3rd Growth Margaux (Cantenac).
- Super Seconds.
66 ha: 47% Merlot, 47% Cab Sauv, 6% Petit Verdot.
- Second wine: Alter Ego.
Style: With the higher proportion ofMerlot in the blend, Château Palmer rarely exceeds 60% new oak. The
élevage
lasts up to 20 months. AlterEgo includes an even greater percentage of Merlot and is typically aged in one-third new oak.

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Château Pichon-Longueville, Comtesse de Lalande

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Second Growth Pauillac
- 89 ha: The château property is adjacent to
Château Latour
, and Pichon-Lalande’s vineyards spread southward along—and across—the Saint-Julien commune boundary, near
Léoville-Las-Cases. 9 ha of vines are actually in Saint-Julien AOC, but the winery has received dispensation to include the fruit in its Pauillac wines.
61% Cab Sauv, 32% Merlot, 4% Cab Franc.
Second wine: Reserve de la Comtesse 1973.
Style: The most striking element of the Château Pichon-Lalande
grand vin
is its high percentage of Merlot. One-third of the blend is Merlot—a large component for aclassified growth in the Médoc and the highest proportion of Merlot for any Pauillac AOC
grand vin. The high proportion of Merlot is cause for the winery to employ less new oak than most upper-echelon Médoc châteaux.

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Château Pichon-Longueville

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2nd Growth Pauillac.
- the château has modernized its facilities and maximized its potential as a “SuperSecond” of Pauillac.
Château Pichon-Baron is adjacent to Château Pichon-Lalande and Château Latour on the southern side of Pauillac.
- 73ha: 62% Cabernet Sauv, 32% Merlot, 3% cab Franc.
Second wine: Le Griffons de Pichon Barons.
Style: Unlike Pichon-Lalande, Pichon-Baron keeps thefocus on Cabernet, with a typical
assemblage
for the
grand vin
incorporating at least 80% of the grape. It is a robust and muscular style; older vintages are typically more rustic. Proportions of new oak in the cellar have steadily increased since the late 1980s.

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Château Pontet-Canet

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5th Pauillac
81 ha: 62% CS, 32% Merlot, 4% CF, 2% PV.
Second wine: Les Hauts de Pontet Canet.
Style: first certified
biodynamic classified growth in the Médoc. Low trained high density vineyard.
Ambient yeast fermentation. After pressing, the wines are racked into threetypes of vessel for a 16- to 18-month
élevage
: new barriques (50%), 1-year-old barriques (15%), and egg-shaped cement “amphorae” (35%) of Comme’s own design. The resulting style is incredibly ripe, extracted and brambly, but not overtly oaky.

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Château Poujeaux

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Moulis en Medoc
No Classification.
Alongside its neighbor
Château Chasse-Spleen
, Château Poujeaux is the undisputed heavyweight of the Moulis AOC and ranked as a Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel.
50% CS, 40% Merlot, 5% CF, 5% PV.
Second wine: La Salle de Poujeaux.
Style: Poujeaux has always maintained a classic, reserved character that does not verge into over-extraction or excessive ripeness. The blend typically aligns with the
encépagement
and the wine ages in 30% new oak. It is fined but not filtered.

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Chateau Rauzan Segla

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Margaux
Second Growth Medoc
60 ha
54% CS, 41% Merlot, 4% PV.
Second wine: Segla.
Style: Rauzan-Ségla in the modern age is a classic, finesse-driven Margaux blend, incorporating 50-60% Cabernet Sauvignon and 50-60% new oak.

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Château Sociando-Mallet

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No classification.
48% CS, 47% Merlot, 5% CF.
Second wine: La Demoiselle de Sociando-Mallet (1989).
Sociando-Mallet has proven itself as a rich, luscious wine of classed-growth quality, yet it wears oak, ripe fruit, and modern tannic texture on its sleeve. The
grand vin
is the product of unabashedly high yields, but it easily maintains concentration through must concentration and/or
saignée.
The top wine is usually split between Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, while the second wine may contain 75% Merlot. The
grand vin
is treated to 12 months of mostly new oak.

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