2019 Tutiac Tout Roupit Blaye Cotes de Bordeaux Rouge

SOIL
Deep, coarse-textured calcosol with pebbles under gravel topsoil. This soil retains warmth and is conducive to early ripening.
It also overlays a2-metre deep hard, slightly fragmented, limestone bedrock.
This physical barrier limits the depth of the roots, promoting the gradual onset of moderate water stress from véraison (colour change) throughout ripening. This restricts the sizeof the grapes, boosting the synthesis of phenolic compounds and concentration of anthocyanins. The thick, deeply- coloured skins are highly tannic and aromatic.

VITICULTURE
Sustainable pruning, bud pruning, leaf thinning, green harvesting. The high-leaf canopy
rapidly consumes the soil's water reserves by evapotranspiration and ensures an adequate leaf-to-fruit ratio, propitious to good concentration and extraction.
The grapesare picked early in the morning at optimum ripeness(slightly overripe), to preserve their intrinsic fruitiness and full aromatic expression.

750ml