 TALENTS
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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.
A attractive presentation of their property, quality of the years, their prices... and especially the possibility of coming directly into contact with them.
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HALL OF FAME
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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. |
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 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. |
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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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TOP WINES IN AREAS
Click on the areas to see the list of the selected wines
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VITICULTURAL AREAS GUIDE
For any knowledge on the grounds of the vineyards, the type of vines, the agreement of the wines and the dish, the characteristics of names and the wines, click on an area : |
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CLASSIFICATIONS OF BEST FRENCH WINES
Single in their kind and actualised every year, the Classifications of chairman are the reflection of a total hierarchy in such or such name, of the questioning of "famous" the Classification of the wines of the Medoc which goes back to 1855... with the other classifications of the best wines of France. |
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VINTAGE CODE
The veritable Vintage chart
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What is the difference between this and the multitude of other charts with their complex mixture of stars and grades ? Two things : the first is the rigor, the severity with which Patrick Dussert-Gerber has graded the intrinsic quality of the vintages. The second thing, the enormous “plus” in the Vintage Code, is the second grade (upper right, in Italics and in red on our plastic coated card).
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DUSSERT-GERBER GROUP
A specialized principal French journalist, Patrick Dussert-Gerber defend and promote the French wines which deserve it and posts a will to undertake and an impressive capacity of work. Its Guide, Millesimes and the shops of the Love of the Wine, in Paris and Bordeaux, are references. In 26 years, it set up a true family "group". When the character joins passion. |
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