Petit Verdot by Belle-Vue, Bordeaux 2018
Presentation
Owners : Heirs Vincent Mulliez
Managing Director : Isabelle Mulliez
Estate Manager : Jérôme Pineau
Technical Consultant : Vincent Bache-Gabrielsen
Oenologist Adviser : Christophe Coupez
Planted acreage : 2.05 ha from the old vines planted in 1939, 1949 and 1958.
Density of planting: 3788 vines/ha
Terroir
Dry Palus (a former island on the Garonne).
In the vineyard
- H.V.E Certificate : High Environmental and Agricultural good practices acknowledgment.
- Severe pruning favouring aeration to provide an homogenous repartition of grapes, disbudding and bud splitting. Thinning out the leaves on both sides. Cleaning up.
- Integral soil work by grass growing , to encourage the vines roots to grow deeper in order to obtain the best expression of Terroir.
Winemaking
During vinification time, extraction is done as gently as possible.
- Cold pre-ferment maceration ( 0°C) during 10 days.
- Exclusive use of release by gravity. Juice is re-sent by sprinkling on to the grappa which prevents it from destructure.
- No pumping over.
- Long post-ferment maceration (28°C) during 20 days in average to refine the tannins.
Ageing
15 % earthenware amphora, 20 % new barrels of 400l, 25 % second-fill barrels, 40 % third-fill barrels. The main focus is the use of oak barrels oak from Austrian forests. Duration : 14 months
Varietal
Petit verdot : 100%
Specifications
Alcohol content : 14 % vol.
Production volume : 15 000 bouteilles
Age of vines : 79 years old
pH : 3.70
