2019 Chateau La Tour du Pin Figeac - Saint-Émilion Grand Cru - 6 Bottles (0.75L)

6 bottles of Chateau la Tour du Pin Figeac Saint-Emilion Grand Cru (Classé). The vintage is 2019, an outstanding vintage receiving 95/100 points on the Robert Parker Vintage Chart.

With its 11 Ha, Château La Tour du Pin Figeac is located on the Haute Terrasse of Figeac-Pomerol. And it is the clays contained in this soil of the Haute Terrasse of Figeac-Pomerol that make its terroir so great. Henri Enjalbert indicates that "These are the remains of the high and ancient Gunzian gravel terrace that the Isle and Dronne rivers together built in the early Quaternary period, coming from the Massif Central. In the subsoil, these gravels are mixed with a dust of clay and ancient sands that play a primordial role in the agrological balance of a wine-growing terroir. Beyond these ancient gravels, there appears a sedimentary subsoil of extremely penetrable molasse."

Chateau La Tour du Pin Figeac is hard to find nowadays. The chateau was classified Grand Cru Classé untill 2012.

Soil:
Figeac-Pomerol terrace composed of gravel and sand on clay, dating from the Upper Eocene and Oligocene.

Grape varieties:
75% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc

Planting density:
6,000 vines/hectare

Cultivation methods:
Simple Guyot pruning, soil work and grassing, disbudding, manual thinning and leaf removal, manual harvesting, sorting table.

Vinification:
Gentle extractions, cold pre-fermentation maceration, temperature-controlled cement vats, gentle vatting for three weeks.

Consulting oenologist:
Thomas Duclos, Œnoteam Laboratory

Aging:
12 months, new French oak barrels, 1/3 barrels of one wine, 1/3 barrels of two wines

The bottles will be shipped to you in their original wooden case in a protective packaging.