Château Capbern, St-Estèphe - 2020

Provenance: Bordeaux
Appellation: Saint-Estèphe
Domain: Capbern
Grape variety(ies): 68% Cabernet sauvignon, 31% merlot, 1% petit verdot.
On-call time: 10 years
Note: 92+/100

Black fruit, blueberry, cedar. Very nice aromatic presentation. Fleshy and expressive with a beautiful aromatic vibration and a fruity and enticing tannin. Without doubt a very good price/pleasure ratio!

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Technique

Viticulture

Gravelly-sandy, clay and limestone soil. Production area: 29 hectares (33 hectares planted). Average age of the vines: 18 years. Double Guyot pruning. Planting density: 8,000 vines per hectare. Target yield: 45 hl/ha. Oenologist: Éric Boissenot. Capbern is another Calon-Ségur property but is neither a 2nd nor a 3rd wine.

Oenology

Manual harvesting, 1st inspection during the harvest, vibrating de-stemmer, manual sorting table. Vinification in temperature-controlled stainless steel truncated cone vats. Vatting time of 18 to 21 days. Aged for 18 months, 60% in new barrels, the rest in one-wine barrels. Fining with egg white. Average annual production: 80,000 bottles.