La Dame de Bouard 2016 Montagne Saint Emilion《F949》

🌟 Coralie de Boüard owner - Daughter of Hubert de Bouard, owner of Chateau Angelus

🌟 Father Hubert de Bouard as consultant

🌟 Coralie also own La Fleur de Bouard

🌟 2016 Bordeaux great vintage

🏅 James Suckling 93 points

Clos de Bouard is the new project for Coralie de Bouard and her husband Loic Maillet. When Loic Maillet is not busy with Clos de Bouard, he is also a negociant at LA Vintage. Coralie de Bouard is quite experienced in the wine world. Coralie de Bouard comes from a wine family.

Her father is Hubert de Bouard of Chateau Angelus. However, Coralie also owns another property, La Fleur de Bouard in the Lalande de Pomerol appellation, which she has been managing since 2012. 2016 is the debut vintage for Chateau Clos de Bouard.

Clos de Bouard, was previously known as Tour Musset. The property was purchased in late 2016 from Castel Freres. Located in the western part of the appellation, it is not far from the Saint Christophe des Bardes commune in St. Emilion. They have good neighbors. They are not far from Croix de Labrie, Fleur Cardinale, Fombrauge, Rocheyron, Troplong Mondot and Valandraud.

The Right Bank vineyard of Clos de Bouard is planted to 66% Merlot, 24% Cabernet Franc and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon. Located in the St. Emilion satellite appellation of Montagne Saint Emilion, with 30 hectares of vines.

The vineyard has a hillside terroir of clay and limestone soils. The vines are old as they are on average, 35 years of age. However, they also have very old vines that range from 60 to 70 years of age.

The vines are an average of 40 years old and hand-picked.  Each plot was vinified seperately and then aged in French oak for 10-14 months in 30 new oak.