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France has talent. With this great web site, bilingual and world, carried out by Patrick Dussert-Gerber, an author very influential and famous in the whole world.
Name by name, selection of the best owners of France for the typicity of the wines, their quality-price-pleasure ratio, the expression of their soil and their passion of vine growers.
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Château La Galiane owes its name to Galian, an English general who commanded his troops here during their occupation of Aquitaine in the 15th century. This has been a family estate for several generations and has a surface area of 5 hectares planted with 45 % Merlot, 50 % Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Petit Verdot, a combination which gives that perfect, classical balance which is so typical of the Margaux appellation. The vineyard is planted on slopes with fine gravel soils. These wine-growers from father to son produce La Galiane wines with a lovely ruby-red colour and a fine bouquet, very harmonious and smooth in the mouth. The tannins are fine and elegant and the wines have good ageing capacity. Château Charmant has 5 hectares of vines which are a hundred years old and planted on fine gravel soils with lots of pebbles which are ploughed. Harvesting is done by hand and the vatting process is long in order to extract all the aromas before maturing the wine in barrels for 12 months. Château Charmant produces an aromatic wine with good colour, very complex and elegant, perfectly balanced, well-structured and supple at the same time and opening out delightfully with age.

This estate of 63 hectares is located in Castanet, in the region of Gaillac on the hillsides on the right bank of the Tarn River. It lies 10 km from the medieval town of Cordes (XIIIth century) and 15 km from Albi, the region of Toulouse-Lautrec. Jean Albert and his son Jean-Paul are the owners. Their research into their family tree has shown that the estate already belonged to the Albert family at the beginning of the XVIth century. Around the buildings of the estate, the vines spread out over south-facing hillsides with very pebbly soils. Their produce is presented in the traditional Gaillac bottle. They produce an exemplary range: a remarkable Gaillac Red Cuvée Guillaume with fine spicy notes and a blend of suppleness and structure, as well as firm, flavoursome tannins which provide an excellent basis for ageing; the Gaillac Red de Garde, with a deep, intense colour, full body and a characteristic nose of over-ripe fruit, spice and humus, is very distinctive complex and fleshy with good development. The excellent Gaillac Sweet White, with a refined, powerful nose and aromas of fresh flowers, is unctuous and distinctive with good length, and can be laid down for a long time. It should be drunk with foie gras or desserts.

CHATEAU MONT-REDON
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In the mid-18th century, Mont Redon was bought by a member of the nobility: Joseph Ignace d'Astier, a lawyer and a Doctor in Law from Avignon. Mont Redon then passed into the hands of the Mathieu family. Anselme Mathieu, known as the Marquis de Mont Redon, ran this estate with his brothers when their father died. But then disaster hit the family and the estate had to be divided up. In 1923, Mont Redon was bought by the Plantin family. Henri Plantin decided to regroup the various parts of land and give the estate its current physiognomy: that of a property covering a total of 162 hectares, including 100 planted with vines. Château Mont Redon, a family estate for four generations, with its ever-present vineyard, has a long list of references and a great tradition.


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CLASSIFICATIONS OF BEST FRENCH WINES
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VINTAGE CODE
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