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For those with more than a passing interest in the Bordeaux region, Chateau Falfas is not just located in a beautiful terroir, just 1km from the Gironde coast. Véronique Cochran has been biodynamically farming the 20 hectares of vineyards since 1988, following in the footsteps of her father François Bouchet, who was a biodynamic consultant to estates such...
The harvest for the three varieties is simultaneous with Mavrodaphne at high maturity but Araklino and Korfiatiko at an earlier stage, providing the blend with serious vitality and excellent acidity. A wonderfully balanced wine with moderate volume and elegant tannins with texture that gives a sense of fullness in the mouth without a trace of astringency....
To make life easier for those who market his wines, Pedro Parra follows the Burgundy model because everyone can understand it. So he categorizes his wines hierarchically as village, premier cru and grand cru. Imaginador is one of the two villages he produces. (the other is Vinista). His inspiration for these wines was Italy and a simple Langhe that he...
Along with Imaginador from the Cinsault variety, Vinista is the second of Pedro Parra's village (by Burgundy standards) wines, which means that the fruit comes from different vineyards. And even though Pedro was for many years a super-fan of the Cinsault varietal the Pais has slowly managed to capture his interest much more. It is perhaps this relevance...
Vines planted in 1943, manual harvesting, cup-shaped stumps, extremely stony terroir, whole bunch vinification at low temperatures that delay the native yeasts from working and add complexity to the wine, and fermentation and maturation in concrete tanks. There's nothing about the above suggestions that doesn't generate excitement among the wine lovers...
Granitic soils reminiscent of the Northern Rhône and a tiny vineyard owned by Pedro Parra, one of the best in the region. Everything is done by hand, vinification as with all his Cinsault is with 100% whole bunches and fermentation is done in concrete tanks and aging in oak foudres. One of the producer's three excellent grand cru wines that is the finest...
85% Malbec and 15% Merlot to bring down the youthful "rigor" of the blend from organically cultivated vineyards on gravel and limestone soils with clay. The grapes are vinified in stainless steel tanks at relatively high temperatures with very careful cap breaking, and each individual vineyard plot after being vinified separately will be blended in the...
What a great label. It's worth a thousand words and captures at once what Dão really is. A wall made of granite, the rock of the mountains of the region and the figure of an old woman walking with the help of a cane but with great courage and determination. How better to describe the Portuguese countryside and the dedication of people like João Costa to...
