Our First Label Wine

Château Le Pin
Beausoleil

Vintage 2012

De la grande qualité dans cette bouteille signée Ingrid et Michael Hallek et leur consultant, Stéphane Derenoncourt. Assemblage de merlot et cabernet, le ticket d’entrée à 20 € environ est assez élevé pour un « simple » bordeaux. Sauf que ce bordeaux supérieur-là n’a rien de
simple ou de simpliste. Au contraire, il est tout en finesse et complexité (fruits noirs, épices) et peut en remontrer à l’aveugle à bien des crus
d’appellations plus prestigieuses.

Ce millésime 2012 conserve encore un joli potentiel de garde, ce qui ne gâche rien.

SUD OUEST

Cultivation area

8,00 ha

Planting density

7,000 vines per hectare

Average age of the stock

28 years

Cultivated grape varieties

Merlot
75%
Cabernet Franc
22%
Cabernet Sauvignon
3%

Soil type

Clay Limestone

Techniques in the vineyard

Bordelaise pruning with two branches with 4 buds each, de-budding, green harvesting, leaf removal, manual harvesting in small boxes and baskets.

Manual harvesting in boxes

Vintage

4.10.2021 to 11.10.2021

Earnings

35 hl/ha

Our ratings

Wine making techniques

Picking up the crop after manual harvesting on automatic sorting table
Alcoholic fermentation of whole grapes in cement tanks for 24 days
Careful extraction by gentle, mechanical stirring with a specially made stirring rod.

Subsequent gentle use of a vertical basket press
Separation of the pressed wines,
Aging in separate batches until the final assemblage.

Malolactic fermentation in barrels

Maturation in barrels

50% new barrels
50% barrels of a wine

Maturation period

12 – 14 months

Barrels

30 % Taransaud
30 % Anna-Selektion
40 % Darnajou

Mixture

Merlot
60%
Cabernet Franc
35%
Cabernet Sauvignon
5%

Potential alcohol content

14%

Production in bottles of this vintage

about 10 000

Oenological advice

Stéphane Derenoncourt

Allergens

Contains sulfites

Matching

Lamb, beef, veal

strong pasta sauces

Cheese

Chocolate

Region and vineyards

Chateau le Pin Beausoleil is grown on the best plots of the estate, one of 5 hectares near the chateau, in Saint-Vincent de Pertignas, on a beautifully situated, well drained clay-limestone plateau and on a smaller plot of 2 hectares in Merignas, in the middle of a small forest, the soil here also has a wonderful clay-limestone structure.

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