Chateau de La Cour d'Argent Bordeaux 2005

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Chateau de La Cour d'Argent Bordeaux 2005 Front Label
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Vintage
2005

Size
750ML

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"Dark ruby in color, with plenty of blackberry, spice and coffee bean undertones. Full-bodied, with soft tannins and a medium, caressing finish. Has a nice core of fruit. Best after 2010."
-Wine Spectator

"This lower pedigree wine represents undeniable quality/value rapport in 2005. This vintage is so deep in quality among the better run, less heralded estates, that these wines should appeal to readers looking for terrific values from Bordeaux. Most of these wines are Merlot-based and will be drinkable young. Sleeper of the vintage."
-Wine Advocate 87-89

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Chateau de La Cour d'Argent

Chateau de La Cour d'Argent

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Chateau de La Cour d'Argent, France
The estate has been family owned since it was first created at the end of the 19th Century. Pierre-Henri Descrambe enlarged it and he passed on his love for the vine to his grandson, Denis Barraud, who has been in charge since 1971.

The estate now consists of 36 hectares (89 acres). Seven (17 acres) of these have the appellation Saint-Emilion, where excellent terroir and low yield give complex dense wines with very gentle tannins.

The Génissac terroir, which makes up most of the land of our Bordeaux wine Chateau de la Cour d'Argent, consists of a fine hillock of chalky clay which has much in common with St Emilion on the other side of the Dordogne.

The St Emilion terroir consists of a sandy gravel with very deep gravels and above all, a cool ferriferous subsoil. A parcel of land has been identified and set apart for its particularly high quality, to produce the Cuvée Lynsolence.

Other parcels are also used, each to give their particular character. Some of these, now classed as Bordeaux, were once included under the St. Emilion appellation.

Varietals planted in the Saint Emilion appellation include: 100% Merlot, with vines from 35 to 50 years old. In the Bordeaux appellation: 35 year-old vines including: Merlot 90%, Cabernet Franc 5%, and Cabernet-Sauvignon 5%.

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In most of France, wines are named by their place of origin and not by the type of grape (with the exception of Alsace). Just like a red Burgundy is by law, always made of Pinot noir, a red Bordeaux is a blended wine composed mainly of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Depending on the laws of the village from which the grapes come, the conditions of the vintage and decisions of the winemaker, the blend can be further supported by Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Petit Verdot and in rare cases, Carmenere. So popular and repeated has this mix of grape varieties become worldwide, that the term, Bordeaux Blend, refers to a wine blended in this style, regardless of origin.

ALL6246940_2005 Item# 96215

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