Description
Chateau Boyd Cantenac 2016 Margaux Grand Cru Classe Third Growths
Region : Margaux
Grapes : 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 8% Petit verdot, 7% Cabernet franc
Alcohol : 13.5% vol
Website: http://www.boyd-cantenac.fr/
⭐️1855 Bordeaux Classification Grand Cru Classé Third Growth
⭐️James Suckling 95 pts !
⭐️Falsyaff 95 pts !
⭐️Decanter 92 pts !
⭐️Cellar Insider 91 pts !
THE VINTAGES
The recent vintages are dark and dense, with complex aromas of fruit enhanced by the barrel and bottle aging. In the mouth, the begining is supple and progressive, followed by a sensation of volume that fills and coats the mouth. Finally, come the ripe tannins which assure the excellent aging capability of these wines.
These wines are always very harmonious, more elegant and aromatic than powerful, which is characteristic of traditional MARGAUX wines.
Go back in time and rediscover the different characteristics of our vintages over the past 30 years .
Winemaking
With aging, for which they have a remarkable aptitude, each vintage affirms its personality and becomes a stirring testimony to the past.
All along the vegetative cycle, the best possible conditions are created in which to obtain ripe, well-constituted and healthy grapes.
Pruning, performed manually in winter, determines the number of shoots each vine will produce the following growing season. It is the first important act in the cycle and has a bearing on the future harvest, as well as the long-term health of the plant.
Manual operations employed in spring and summer remove unnecessary shoots, placing in better position those that will produce the harvest. This also assures better distribution of leaves and grape clusters, which then find themselves aerated, well-exposed to the sun, well-spaced on the row, and in controlled quantity.The greatest care is brought to each different operation : the number of workers is doubled from May to July, and quadrupled during the harvest period.
Concerning the fight against parasites and pests, as modernisation has always been considered with circumspection, chemicals used in the 1960s and 1970s were never used in excess at Château Boyd-Cantenac, leaving the vineyards with a remarkable biological equilibrium.Likewise, chemical fertilisers are unknown. Compost is used to maintain a moderate degree of richness in the soil, and in particular, to maintain the soil's natural biodiversity and level of organic matter.
At a point which varies from year to year during the month of August, vine growth stops, the grapes become dark purple, and the period of maturation begins ; now energy produced by the leaves, under the effect of the sun, is available to ripen the grapes, and later, for the trunk and roots allowing the plant to survive winter and grow again the next spring.
Periodic analysis of the grapes, both visual and gustative, allows the date of the harvest to be fixed. This is of utmost importance because it is often the final days of grape ripening on which the future wine depends for its charm, its noblesse, and its personality. It is also when the aromas become sublime and tannins attain their maximum elegance.
The harvest, done manually to allow rigorous selection, begins with the Merlot because it is the earliest-ripening varietal. The harvest lasts anywhere from 10 to 25 days, depending on the ripening rate of each varietal as well as the differences resulting from vineyard location.
$ 460/bottle
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