A delicate, aromatic Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé
Estate: A Grand Cru Classé, Château Fleur Cardinale reveals all the typicity of the Saint-Émilion terroir, an emblematic appellation on Bordeaux's right bank.
Sensory Features: Deep, brilliant purple with purplish highlights. The nose reveals a rich, pure palette of aromas. A frank and dense attack, the palate seduces with its structure, the precision of the fruit, its controlled aromatic power and its delicate touch. The combination of wood and amphora ageing lends an incredible finesse of the tannins, as well as persistence and elegance to a vintage with great ageing potential.
Grape Varieties: 76% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc & 4% Cabernet Sauvignon.
Vineyard:Château La Fleur Cardinale's 23.1-hectare vineyard is a veritable mosaic of terroirs, with 7 different clay-limestone soils and subsoils.
Vintage:2020 is an early vintage, both in terms of the development of the vines throughout the year, and in terms of the earliest start to the harvest in the history of the estate. Although two Merlot vines were harvested on September 17 and 18, a rainy spell stopped the harvest for a few days to allow the rest of the vineyard to perfect its ripeness.
Vinification and Ageing: 2020 is the first vintage to be entirely vinified and aged in the estate's new facilities. Manual harvest. Initial sorting in the vineyard is followed by de-stemming, densimetric sorting and hand-sorting before gravity-fed vatting. Vinification in 20 truncated-conical vats, 5 “gardes-vins” and 20 barrels. Aged for 12 to 14 months in barrels (100% new) and two amphorae.
