Name: Chateau de Fargues Sauternes 2008
Brand: martinafruit.com
SKU: 20157802100
Price: 136.00 USD
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Rating: 4.1512 (17 reviews)

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Chateau de Fargues Sauternes 2008While Chteau dYquem was sold to LVMH in the late 1990s, Chteau de Fargues remains under the control of the Lur Saluces family, with Alexandres friendly and highly capable son Philippe at the helm today. Their lone wine is produced from 80% Smillon and 20% Sauvignon Blanc, harvested with meticulous care to only include pristinely botrytized fruit, with yields averaging less than a glass of wine per vine. It is aged for two full years in one third new

where the wine spends 18 months on the fine lees and is bottled without fining or filtration

is distinguished and fine with notes of raspberry and red cherry fruit in its youth supplemented with the aromas of violet

is harvested late and left to raisin for four months before pressing

christening his bottling of Rive as “Specola

This pure-south-exposed site of clay and limestone produces a rich

000 half bottles are produced

Christophe's sensuous and mineral-driven "Orchis" comes from a parcel of 20-year-old Sémillon planted in limestone-rich soils just outside of Saint-Emilion

and sizzling with energy on the long

Mostly Zweigelt with splashes of Blaufränkisch and Sankt Laurent

they undergo a cuvaison of approximately two weeks in stainless steel before being racked into a mixture of large and small barrels for an extensive aging period of 30 to 36 months before being bottled (without filtration)

From a less botrytis-affected vintage

with heavily calcareous sandstone soils and a drastic 65% gradient

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