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Château Villars 2018
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Château Villars 2018

AC Fronsac, 750 ml

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Grape variety: Merlot, Cabernet Franc
Producer: Château Villars
Origin: France / Bordeaux / Fronsac und Canon-Fronsac
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Grape variety: Merlot, Cabernet Franc
Producer: Château Villars
Origin: France / Bordeaux / Fronsac und Canon-Fronsac
Other vintages:

Description

Ripe blackberries, tobacco, game and slightly smoky notes characterise the bouquet. On the palate, juicy opulence with a fruit mix of elderberries, blueberries and blackberries, with a hint of nougat underneath, some plum and fine spice. Full-bodied and complex, with perfectly matured and well-integrated tannins. Great ageing potential, but offers as well a lot of drinking pleasure when drunk young.

Attributes

Origin: France / Bordeaux / Fronsac und Canon-Fronsac
Grape variety: Merlot, Cabernet Franc
Label: Vegan
Drinking temperature: 16 to 18 °C
Food Pairing: Châteaubriand, Filet Wellington, Goulash, boeuf bourguignon, Beef Stroganoff
Vinification: fully destemmed, protein fining, fermentation in cement tank
Harvest: hand-picking, strict selection
Maturation: in partly new and used barriques/ Pièces
Bottling: no filtration
Maturation duration: 12 months
Volume: 15.0 %
Note: Contains sulphites
Grape variety

Merlot

Everybody’s darling

Merlot is the most charming member of the Bordeaux family. It shines with rich colour, fragrant fullness, velvety tannins and sweet, plummy fruit. It even makes itself easy for the vintner, as it matures without issue in cool years as well. This is in contrast to the stricter Cabernet Sauvignon, which it complements as a blending partner. Its good qualities have made the Merlot famous worldwide. At over 100,000 hectares, it is the most-planted grape in France. It also covers large areas in California, Italy, Australia and recently in Eastern Europe. The only catch is that pure Merlot varieties rarely turn out well. Its charm is often associated with a lack of substance. Only the best specimens improve with maturity. They then develop complex notes of leather and truffles. This succeeds in the top wines from the Bordeaux appellation of Pomerol and those from Ticino, among others.

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Merlot

Cabernet Franc

Forefather of the Bordeaux varieties

The Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest varieties of Bordelais and a parent of three other red grapes in the Bordeaux assortment: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Carmenère. It is distinguished by its complex, flavourful bouquet of raspberry, graphite, violet, liquorice and white pepper. In addition, it presents round, crisp tannins which turn out less strongly than those of Cabernet Sauvignon. While the Cabernet Franc always appears as part of a blend in Bordeaux, it is pressed alone on the Loire. The most renowned appellations are Chinon and Bourgueil. Incidentally, the Cabernet originates not in Bordeaux but in the Spanish Basque Country. Cabernet owes its name to the Latin “carbon”, meaning black.

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Cabernet Franc
Subregion

Fronsac und Canon-Fronsac

Fronsac and Canon Fronsac: in the best company

Somewhat off the beaten track of the prestigious premier crus and new super crus, winemakers in Fronsac and Canon Fronsac produce classic, well-structured and storable Bordeaux wines with an excellent quality to price ratio. Thanks to the well-proportioned hilly terrain and the medieval estates, this is rural Bordeaux at its most beautiful.

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Canon Fronsac S
Region

Bordeaux

Bordeaux: high prestige, high quality

With a total area of around 115,000 hectares, Bordeaux may not be France’s largest wine-growing region, but it is certainly its most prestigious. The range of wines produced here today is enormous: ranging from red everyday wines with a great relationship between price and quality to exclusive, and accordingly expensive, premier crus. Elegant white wines and noble sweet specialties round out the spectrum.

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Bordeaux S1
Country

France

France – Philosophy in a bottle

According to French philosophy, wine should be an expression of the soil and climate. They use the word “terroir” to describe this. Terroir makes every wine different, and many especially good. French wine is regarded worldwide as an expression of cultural perfection. The French believe that humans are responsible for the quality of the berries, the vine variety for their character, and nature for the quantity. This philosophy can be expressed succinctly as: “the truth is the vineyard, not the man.”

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Frankreich S
Rating
Parker 87-89 Points
Baur au Lac Vins 88-90 Points

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