Clos de Sarpe

It is an exceptional wine with a limited production of around 10,000 bottles per year. The blend is always identical, 85% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc. The quintessence of Saint-Émilion wines, powerful, complex, long. Clos de Sarpe will charm you with its freshness, its notes of exuberant red fruit, its silky tannins.

To obtain this inimitable red fruit taste, grapes are perfectly ripe when harvested. They are then meticulously sorted and only the perfect berries go into making the first wine. Winemaking is gentle, so that only the noble tannins are extracted. Ageing by plot in French oak barrels, 70% new barrels and 30% 1-year barrels. The wine is not fined on blending and not filtered before bottling.

2000

Wine Advocate 96: The 2000 Clos de Sarpe is medium to deep garnet-purple in color and very meaty on the nose with scents of charcuterie and beef drippings over a core of Black Forest cake, plum pudding and tobacco with wafts of leather and cedar chest. Wow—medium to full-bodied, it absolutely fills the palate with sweet, rich, ripe fruit, supported by satiny tannins and oodles of freshness, finishing long and earthy.