Chapelle de Labrie Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2021

Blend: 90% Merlot 10% Cabernet Franc / average age: 45 years.

A fine and elegant St.-Emilion with silky and velvety yet firm tannins. Pretty core of blue fruit, violets and gravel here. Crushed stones and black licorice, too. Textured and full of energy. Mineral and slate character at the end. 90% merlot and 10% cabernet franc. From biodynamically grown grapes. 94 points, James Suckling.

Tasting: Notes of blackcurrant, blueberry, wild strawberry combined with touches of liquorice. Of the violet, mineral notes, graphite, tea (in the background), with discreet hints of mocha and pepper. The palate is fresh, balanced and offers brightness, deliciousness, a pretty tangy frame, beautiful energy, with purity
aromatic. The wine expresses red fruits, blackcurrant and cherry, combined with touches cornflower, star anise. The tannins are elegant and distinguished. Good length with minty notes. Winery's notes.

Chapelle de Labrie is the second wine of Château Croix de Labrie Grand Cru Classé
Saint-Emilion. The vineyard is worked by Axelle Courdurié, from pruning to vinification, as a garden vineyard. Certified in organic farming, we practice throughout our estate biodynamics, agroforestry, genodic (music in the vineyards). We work without added sulfur from the harvest to winemaking and without sulfur added before bottling. Hedges are planted and also radishes, forest rye, fever beetle and other plants to develop biodiversity soils and subsoil life.

Aged for 18 months in French oak barrels, extra-fine grains, heated
medium and sweet, 70% new barrel 30% 1 wine barrel.