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Château de Parenchere Cuvee Raphael

Château de Parenchere Cuvee Raphael

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Château de Parenchere Cuvee Raphael
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  • Château de Parenchere Cuvee Raphael
Château de Parenchere Cuvee Raphael

Château de Parenchere Cuvee Raphael

Wine at a glance:

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Red
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Bordeaux
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Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot
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Medium to Full Bodied
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15.0
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Slight oak flavour

A Top Cuvee from Parenchere

£16.00 £20.00
Who makes it?

Château de Parenchère rises in the heart of a green and hilly landscape situated 38 km from Saint-Emilion, at the crossroads of the Gironde and the Dordogne departments.
It therefore benefits from a very particular Terroir in Bordeaux, composed of clay-limestone with a high clay content, which partly explains the strength of the wines produced on the vineyard.

On this vast estate of 188 HA, only the best plots on hillsides have been selected to constitute a beautiful vineyard of 60 HA of which the oldest vines are over 60 years old.
How is it made?

Cuvée Raphaël is the flagship wine of Parenchère.
It bears the name of Raphaël GAZANIOL, who renovated the Parenchère estate in 1958.

It is produced from a selection of the finest plots of the estate, from vines that are more than 40 years old on average.
The yields from the vines selected for this wine are particularly small: around 40 Hl per hectare.

It is usually a blend of :

60% Merlot

40% Cabernet Sauvignon

This assemblage can, however, vary from vintage to vintage depending on the success of a particular grape variety.

Ageing : This wine is aged exclusively in barrels made of oak from the Forest of Tronçais, 25% of which are new on average depending on the vintage.

It is aged for 12 months on fine lees, without racking or exposure to air. However, we use the (“micro-oxygenation”) technique, sending fine bubbles through the barrels.
In this way, the wine’s fruit and elegance are perfectly preserved.
What does it taste like?

Cuvée Raphaël is always a very dense, very concentrated wine with elegant tannins that stand out, but are mellow and smooth. They are elegantly woody, but not excessively to leave plenty of room for the fruit.

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