CHÂTEAU la vallée
Montagne saint-émilion

Tasting

This wine offers fruity notes (blackcurrant, blackberry) roasted coffee and spices (cinnamon, pepper) with a lot of power on the palate due to his youth. In growing older, it offers aromas of undergrowth, of leather, of baked strawberry and becomes much more velvety in the mouth.

SERVING TEMPERATURE

17-18°C

FOOD PAIRING

This wine will perfectly pair well with a rib steak à la bordelaise, a braised roast beef or a honey duck breast with and its roasted peaches.

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FRONT LABEL

TECHNICAL SHEET

SHELFTALKERS

Bottle size : 75 cl
Soil : Deep clay, limestone plateaus
Area : of the property 32 HA
Grape : varieties MERLOT – CABERNET FRANC
Alcohol : 14% vol
Acidity : 0,495 for 150 ml
pH : 3,53

Château la vallée

Owned by the Guimberteau family since 1923, Chateau La Vallée is now run by Granddaughter Sophie, who’s husband trained at the Domaine de la Vougeraie in Burgundy and at Deiss in Alsace. This is where they met and soon returned to the family estate under the condition that the Chateau would transition to Organic and ultimately Biodynamic (the Estate was already certified Agriculture Raisonnée.)

La Vallée overlooks, well, a Valley as it is one of the highest points in Montage St Emilion at 120 feet. This is a limestone plateau where grass is grown between the vines and Savoie Sheep are roaming the vineyards. The Estate now produces about 8,000 Cases from about 80 acres (average vine age is 35 years), all certified organic.

One key particularity is that La Vallée is Vinified not by varietals but parcels by parcels (from six distinct terroirs) so Merlot and Cab are co-fermented. Malolactic fermentation end by themselves in November and the wine is aged in tanks until bottling in July with minimal sulfites. It’s about the fruit.

Château la vallée

Owned by the Guimberteau family since 1923, Chateau La Vallée is now run by Granddaughter Sophie, who’s husband trained at the Domaine de la Vougeraie in Burgundy and at Deiss in Alsace. This is where they met and soon returned to the family estate under the condition that the Chateau would transition to Organic and ultimately Biodynamic (the Estate was already certified Agriculture Raisonnée.)

La Vallée overlooks, well, a Valley as it is one of the highest points in Montage St Emilion at 120 feet. This is a limestone plateau where grass is grown between the vines and Savoie Sheep are roaming the vineyards. The Estate now produces about 8,000 Cases from about 80 acres (average vine age is 35 years), all certified organic.

One key particularity is that La Vallée is Vinified not by varietals but parcels by parcels (from six distinct terroirs) so Merlot and Cab are co-fermented. Malolactic fermentation end by themselves in November and the wine is aged in tanks until bottling in July with minimal sulfites. It’s about the fruit.

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