Our Second Label Wine

Petit Soleil

YEARS

2019 2018

Certainly on the golden side here, with citrus, yellow apple, and what I could swear is a bit of petrol. That makes me think that this is a Riesling and I know there is only one of those in the lineup—the problem with single-blind tastings. Quite tart and perky on the palate, this is certainly outside the “norms” of sparkling wine. And I like it, a lot. Fruity, but with a laser-sharp acidity, focused, and mineral, this has one of the lengthiest finishes in the group. Fantastic.

94 points - the drunken cyclist

Cultivation area

6,00 ha

Planting density

6,500 stocks per hectare

Average age of the stock

25 years

Cultivated grape varieties

Merlot

70%

Cabernet Franc

28%

Cabernet Sauvignon

Soil type

Calcareous clay and silt

Techniques in the vineyard

Bordeaux pruning with two slats of 4 buds each, breaking out, green harvesting, defoliation, manual harvesting in boxes.

Vintage

28.09.2019 to 04.10.2019

Earnings

35 hl/ha

Wine making techniques

Alcoholic fermentation in cement tanks.

Duration of maceration: 27 days

Receipt with automatic sorting table. Vinification with whole berries, alternating small finishing. 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.

Mixture

Merlot

80%

Cabernet Franc

18%

Cabernet Sauvignon

Oenological advice

Stéphane Derenoncourt

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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