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Anna de Clos Dubreuil 2008, St Emilion Grand Cru
Anna de Clos Dubreuil 2008, St Emilion Grand Cru
Bottle Price: £30.75
Case Price: £350.5
- Country: France
- Region: Bordeaux
- Grape Variety: Cabernet Franc, Merlot
- Alcohol: 14%
- Bottle Size: 75cl
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The second wine of the famous Clos Dubreuil. This is 95% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Franc made from young vines. The wine making is the same with less pumping over in order to have lighter tannins and to focus on a well structured but fruity Saint Emilion. The wine is aged for 18 months in 50% new oak and 50% one-year-old oak barrels.
Have with : game, roasted meats and hard cheeses
Clos Dubreuil - St Emilion Grand Cru, St Emillion, Bordeaux
Benoit Trocard, the son of Jean-Louis Trocard, stands on his own two feet with his Clos de la Vieille Eglise and the world renowned Clos Dubreuil St Emilion Grand Cru. This latter domaine only produces 400 cases a year, with demand increasing year by year.
It won’t help that Benoit is now the President of the new Bordeaux group Bordeaux Oxygène, which aims to breathe new life into the perception – and sales – of the region's wines. It will concern itself chiefly with non-winemaking related issues, notably the marketing and promotion of Bordeaux, in an effort to increase the region's appeal to young wine drinkers.
Benoit is one of a younger generation of Bordelaise producers who are striving to drive the image and wines that they make away from the preconceived idea of ‘the old boy network’ and are producing wines which, although still portray a traditional image and taste, are approachable at an earlier age.
To the west of France, Bordeaux, set around the Garonne and the Dordogne, has the microclimate created by cool sea breezes and warm land which makes it lush and fertile. Saint-Émilion is one of the principal red wine areas of Bordeaux along with the Médoc, Graves and Pomerol.The region is much smaller than the Médoc and adjoins Pomerol. As in Pomerol and the other appellation on the right bank of the Gironde, the primary grape varieties used are the Merlot and Cabernet Franc, with relatively small amounts of Cabernet Sauvignon also being used by some chateaux.
Saint Émilion wines were not included in the 1855 Bordeaux Classification. The first formal classification in Saint Émilion was made in 1955. Unlike the 1855 classification, it is regularly revised. Crucially, it would be open to reassessment every ten years or so, setting it apart from the seemingly immutable 1855 classifications.
