Our Second Label Wine

Petit
Soleil

Cultivation area

8,13 ha

Planting density

6,500 stocks per hectare

Average age of the stock

25 years

Cultivated grape varieties

Merlot
79%
Cabernet Franc
19%
Cabernet Sauvignon
2%

Soil type

Calcareous clay and silt

Techniques in the vineyard

Bordeaux cut with two slats of 4 buds,
De-budding, green harvesting, defoliation,
Manual grape harvest in boxes

Vintage

27.09. to 02.10.

Earnings

20 hl/ha

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

Duration of maceration

27 days

Winemaking

With full berry yield, alternating small post-processing. Cutting with manual irrigation of the marc, use of a vertical basket press with selection of the pressed wines, aging in separate batches until the final assemblage. Malolactic fermentation and aging in tank

Barrels

30 % Taransaud
30 % Anna-Selektion
40 % Darnajou

Mixture

Merlot
60%
Cabernet Franc
35%
Cabernet Sauvignon
5%

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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