Vieux Chateau Champs de Mars Castillon-Cotes de Bordeaux 'Johanna' 2005

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Vieux Chateau Champs de Mars Castillon-Cotes de Bordeaux 'Johanna' 2005The sandy clay limestone terroir of Champs de Mars is beautifully suited to Merlot, which comprises 80% of the wines blend, complemented by 20% Cabernet Franc. Named after his granddaughter, Johanna was Rgis Moros top wine, containing his oldest vines (70 years on average, with a parcel planted in 1904) and employing a more serious levage than the basic cement aged Champs de Mars bottling. The 2000 Johanna was hand harvested, destemmed completely,

A tasting featuring 5 classic wine and cheese pairings

provides dark-fruited bass notes and enhances the final blend’s overall structure

Like the “Grand Classique” above

which takes place in stainless steel via naturally occurring yeasts and with no temperature control

this village-level Nuits-Saint-Georges comes from four vineyards in the northern sector of the appellation: Aux Allots

on the border of Vosne-Romanée

25-hectare parcel with clay and marl soils

Laurent employs just 20% new oak during the wine’s 18-month élevage

Pressed whole-cluster

with secondary fermentation induced with organic beet sugar

and spends ten months in steel in order to maximize its expression of fresh fruit

attractively oak-inflected fruit on a well-balanced frame