Chateau St. Georges Trilogie 2009
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Once a walled fortress, Chateau St. Georges sits impressively atop a prominent hillside overlooking St. Emilion and Montagne. The property has been owned by the Desbois family for three generations. It has long produced the best known wine of the tiny satellite appellation St. Georges-St. Emilion. In response to the garagist movement of the late 1990’s, winemaker Petrus Desbois created a new wine, the Trilogie du Chateau St. Georges. Made in limited quantity entirely from the oldest Merlot vines on the property, the Trilogie is fermented and aged in new oak barriques. It is a heady, full-bodied wine of power and finesse that gives a contemporary expression to the exquisite Merlot produced on this estate.
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.