Blackisphere

Article publié dans le Sommelier Journal (Etats-Unis) daté de février 2012.

Extrait : « Still, I found honest expressions from châteaux Haute Borie, Jean- Luc Baldès, La Caminade, Les Croisille, Pineraie, and Ponzac. I was surprised by two white vins de pays—a flavorful, unoaked Chardonnay from Château du Cayx and a blended white from Clos Troteligotte—along with an AOC rosé from Château Saint-Sernin ».

Extrait : « The Prieuré de Cénac, a former 16th-century papal property now owned by rugby player and karate expert Laurent Rigal, was purchased by Rigal’s grandparents in 1975. After renovating the estate, they set about making wine from its 86 acres, as well as another 166 at two other properties they’d acquired, châteaux de Grézels and Saint-Didier Parnac. Soils here are half clay (with a high percentage of iron) and half limestone, providing, according to Rigal, a “wine of the spirit more than of the body.”

Extrait : « Alain Gayraud oversees 80 acres of Malbec, Tannat, Merlot, and Syrah scattered throughout his family’s Château Lamartine holdings. The estate has been in existence for 10 generations, but has been bottling wines only since 1954 and growing organically since 1985. Like others in Cahors working with more natural methods, Gayraud doesn’t add commercial yeasts. Half of his production is exported, mostly to Quebec. I found his 2005 Cuvée Particulière, from vines 40-60 years old, to be complex, with notes of mocha, plum, and earth and a fresh, medium body ».

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