Jean-Yves Millaire - 'Chateau Cavale' - Merlot - Bordeaux, FR - 2020
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Request a Case Order- 100% Merlot, organically grown and biodynamic
- Average age of the vineyard: 20 years.
- Terroir: clay soils of the Bordeaux PDO, with a significant presence of limestone.
- Manual harvesting, total destemming.
- Natural vinification, with indigenous yeasts, without any artificial additives.
- Aged in vats on fine lees.
Basically, this wine is the perfect expression of an every day Merlot, also known as a Merlot. π
MERLOT IS AN AMAZING GRAPE!
Jean-Yves Millaire was guided towards biodynamic viticulture by his passion for the profession of winegrower and by his respect for the land of his childhood. His wines are authentic, but above all alive.
He is based in the Bordeaux vineyards, in the twin appellations of Fronsac and Canon Fronsac. These are quality terroirs, essentially made up of asteriated limestone plateaus and the clay-limestone molasse of the Fronsadais. Many of the estate's plots overlook the Isle and the Dordogne, with different exposures that offer the possibility of the most interesting plot-by-plot harvesting, and therefore optimal ripeness.
Biodynamic viticulture is above all a philosophical choice, aiming to create harmonious conditions between the earth, the vines and the environment. A balance of the ecosystem is carefully maintained by the various care given to the vineyard: working the soil, preparations based on plants, silica and compost as well as respect for the solar and lunar cycles. The result is unique wines, the pure and simple expression of their terroir and the men and women who make them.