BORDEAUX POMEROL - LALANDE-DE-POMEROL : LA SELECTION

Located on a gravelly ridge facing south, the family vineyard covers 17 ha, Merlot for 88% and 12% Cabernet Franc. “The quality of the grape at the time of the harvest, specifies Xavier Piton, depends on the reasoned work of the man in the vineyard, but is also governed by climatology, because it is still nature which remains master of the game. Two to three weeks before the grapes ripen, maturity checks are carried out on the vine, twice a week, to pick grape berries from each plot in order to monitor their sugar and acid content. The whole is aged in French oak barrels. Tasting, throughout the aging is our common thread. It is according to our palate that we work on wine. As in winemaking, nothing is systematic. ”
We make a reasoned culture by adapting to the climate while using products that respect the environment.
Remarkable Lalande de Pomerol 2017, with a purple robe, with connotations of stewed fruit and musk, a melted but powerful, structured wine, with rich tannins and velvety at the same time, with, on the finish, notes of leather and cooked prune, all in elegance and nuances. The 2016 is colorful, very harmonious, very balanced, with aromas of ripe blackcurrant, spices, a dense, powerful and structured wine, very tasty, with good aging potential.

At the top. A family property for more than 5 generations. The grape varieties are made up of 65% Merlot, 15% Cabernet-Sauvignon and 20% Cabernet franc, manual harvest. Regular cultivation of the soil, while respecting the environment, is preferred, excluding any chemical weedkiller and any systemic chemical treatment.
It is the permanent observation of the vineyard that determines the interventions. The fauna present in the vineyard attests to the natural balance obtained. In the field, therefore, no chemical weedkiller, the grass does not grow because its winegrower works the soil. He turns it over several times a year, with appropriate plows.
Florent Guinjard is a child from the Bordeaux vineyard. A real ! He is passionate about sharing his passion for wine with as many people as possible. Above all, he likes to discover the astonishing diversity of the wines he produces on his estate.
At the head of a property which has belonged to his family since 1880, he perpetuates both the tradition while advancing, year after year, his winemaking technique by surrounding himself with the advice of the best Bordeaux oenologists to offer a top wine. range at an affordable price. His desire: to produce fruity, fine wines with very little oak. Its trademark: fruit.
“With an area of ​​11.2 ha, specifies Florent Guinjard, the vineyard is grouped around the cellar. It is located on the sandy-silty and stony plateau located northeast of Libourne. We are working 10.5 ha, have increased the capacity of our winery to be able to vinify all the grapes we produce.
In 2009, we equipped ourselves with a thermo-regulation to better control the temperature of our fermentations. In 2010, to improve our quality and be respectful of our harvest, we bought a new press.
In 2012, in an ecological approach, we equipped ourselves with a washing area and effluent storage tanks. The same year we restored 1 ha of vines, uprooting and replanting. Then, in 2014, we rehabilitated 1 ha of vines, which we replant with our own selected Merlot. ”
This year Florent Guinjard is offering “his Lalande-de-Pomerol 2014, 2015 and 2016 for sale.
The 2019 harvest went well, despite a drought episode which caused us to lose 7 hectoliters per hectare, of course because of the good weather sequences, weed management was complicated because they developed, but in return, we used fewer treatments than usual.
The 2019 vintage has an exceptional aromatic intensity and high degrees.
It will be a great wine for aging superior to 2018. ”
Frankly, his Lalande-de-Pomerol cuvée Reine 2016 is really superb, dense and well fleshy, which combines color and structure, with these characteristic notes of cherry and humus, robust, with ripe tannins, a powerful and tasty palate, and excellent guard. It is the same for its 2015, with a ripe cherry nose, with scents of redcurrant and leather, is a generous and harmonious wine, of intense carmine color, and develops a persistent mouth with these notes of spices and blueberry , with smoky nuances.
The 2014 has aromas of macerated fruit and spices, a beautiful garnet hue, a dense wine on the nose and in the mouth, combining finesse and structure, with tannins that are both rich and silky, excellent evolution.
Beautiful 2012, with a nice deep ruby ​​color, a very harmonious wine, with a raspberry and violet nose and a hint of spice, fleshy on the palate. The 2011, full-bodied and rich on the nose and in the mouth, is of a nice balance, fat, with melted tannins, where the Morello cherry and the humus, a very nice wine, combine.