Le Gay Pomero︱Pomerol︱Wine Couple HK

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Le Gay Pomerol

Chateau Le Gay has a long history in the Pomerol appellation that dates all the way back to at least 1845. At the time, in their formative years, the estate was known as Domaine du Gay.

The property takes its name from its location as the lieu-dit is called Le Gay. In 1872, the owners sold a part of the vineyard to the Greloud family which helped to give birth to Chateau Lafleur.

At one point in time, starting slightly after the conclusion of World War 1, Chateau Le Gay became the property of the Robin family, eventually passing to the famous Robin sisters in 1946 who also owned the legendary estate of Chateau Lafleur!

Therese Robin and Marie Robin owned and managed Chateau Le Gay for six decades! For much of that time, the estate was managed by Jean Pierre Moueix, who produced and sold the wine.

Jean Pierre Moueix also purchased portions of the vineyard from the Robin family. Those parcels were used to increase the size of Chateau La Fleur Petrus. This took place during the 1950s and again in 1994. Following the death of Therese Robin in 1984, Christian Moueix began managing the estate.

Marie Robin passed away in 2001. With no direct descendants to pass the estate to and with massive inheritance taxes due that needed to be paid by Jacques Guinaudeau, he was forced to sell the vineyard. It was widely assumed that the natural buyer would be Ets. Moueix, but that was not the case.

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Chateau Le Gay was purchased by Catherine Pere-Verge in late 2002 for 25 million dollars. One of the first decisions made by the new owner was to increase the size of their vineyards. She did this by planting an additional 3.4 hectares of vines on lands that were not being used.

Those vines were included in the Grand Vin for the first time in 2006. This is important to note, because as the age of the vines increases, so will the quality of the wine. They also brought in Michel Rolland as their consultant. It was the idea of Michel Rolland to bring in and hire Marcelo Pelleriti as the winemaker.

Michel Rolland and Marcelo Pelleriti were well acquainted with each other from working together in Argentina for Pere Verge. The Pere Verge family own Monteviejo in Mendoza Argentina. In addition, they own La Graviere in Lalande de Pomerol.

Catherine Pere-Verge, owned other several Right Bank Pomerol estates including; Chateau La Violette, Chateau Montviel, Chateau Feytit-Lagrave, and Chateau Tristan. Catherine Pere-Verge was the daughter of the late French industrialist, Jacques Durand.

Jacques Durand earned his fortune as the owner of one of the world’s largest glass and crystal companies, Verrerie Cristallerie d’Argues. Sadly, Catherine Pere Verge, the grand woman of Pomerol passed away from cancer the day before she was going to present her wines at a dinner for friends and members of the press, April 2013.

She will always be missed. Her son, Henri Parent took over managing Chateau Le Gay as well as all the other family-owned vineyards.

In 2014, the wine-making facilities at Chateau Le Gay were completely renovated, allowing for more parcel by parcel vinification and space for more barrels allowing the property to use micro vinification techniques for Chateau Le Gay and La Violette.

One of the keys to this was the installation of 5 new, temperature-controlled tanks to aid in the parcel by parcel vinification process. Micro-vinification means that the wines are vinified entirely in barrels.

Chateau Le Gay Vineyards

The 10.5-hectare vineyard of Chateau Le Gay is planted to 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc. The vineyard has a terroir of clay and gravel soil on the Pomerol plateau. However, all their vines are not on the plateau. While their best terroir is situated next to La Fleur Petrus, and close to their chateau, they also have vines not that far from Chateau Rouget.

The vines are planted to a density of 5,500 vines per hectare for the old vines. The young vines are planted at a much higher density of 9,900 vines per hectare.

When vines are replaced here, they are now planted at the new level of vine density. Chateau Le Gay has old vines. In fact, their vines are on average close to 50 years of age! But they also have vines that date back to before the frost of 1956.

The vineyard is farmed using sustainable farming techniques. The yields are kept low. For example, in 2009, they were only 25 hectoliters per hectare. Starting with the 2012 vintage, a percentage of the wine of Chateau Le Gay was produced using the same micro vinification techniques as they employ with Chateau La Violette.

To produce the wine of Chateau Le Gay, the grapes undergo a cold soak for 5 to 7 days at 10 to 12 degrees Celsius. The wine is vinified in small, oak barrels using micro vinification techniques. This means that the wine is vinified entirely in 100% new, French oak barrels from Darnajou.

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