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 At the 17th century, it was of good tone that a noble, notable or easy family has a winegrowing into of Bordeaux and makes there plant a vineyard. François de Chadirac creates his winegrowing with Vertheuil, it is famous for his Uranie novel and Lucidor, his son Jean, Conseiller with the marble table of Louis XV, succeeds to him after a tumultuous youth, and is withdrawn in Souley. The Castle knew a brilliant period at the XIXe century, because its planted vineyard of stocks centenaries and moussus, caused curiosity. The modern history of the Château Le Souley Sainte Croix, merges with that of the Riffaud family. In 1959 whereas the winegrowing is with the abandonment, its vineyard sold with pulling up, Denise and Paul Riffaud buy it and decide to return its gloss of antan to him, because since the XVIIe century, and the first plantation, with approximately of 1616, the winegrowing knew periods of large prosperity, but also of the moments of lapse of memory. For now 50 years the very whole Riffaud family, has devoted her time, the property incomes and especially her passion inébranlable, for first of all making reappear, then to protect the winegrowing. Paul and his Jean son replanted the vineyard on a territory of 25 ha. Today, Paul and Denise died, but the vineyard constitutes a powerful bond between all; Jean and his Marie-Jose wife manage the winegrowing, Frederic the oldest son occupies the function of Master of wine storehouse, Vincent, the junior has in load the material and the maintenance of the buildings, Jean-Baptiste the small last reigns as a Master on the vines. You will find this family osmosis in their wines.
The 2004, vintages been sulky a long time, opens délicieusement, it is suave, charmer it with the freshness of an orchard with its fruit scents matured by the softness of a miraculous autumn. 2005: rich in perfumes as in degrees, the cabernets were of a rare maturity, vintage exceptional, as it would be wished that nature offer it eternally to us. 2006: qualified traditional and the quite well-balanced one, will allure with tasting, it is a charmer, elegant. 2007: saved by one exceptional September, excellent discovered that this vintage. Souley strikes with your door. Open the all large one and let enter it, it will bead you of his vine and its wine. Do not deny that the wine is the product of a magic plant, known of the men since highest antiquity, containing substances with the unknown virtues. We are only vine growers, we know only to look after vine and wine. |
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 Thanks to the patient reconstruction work carried out by Françoise and Henri Lévêque over the last 40 years, Château de Chantegrive has become a superb vineyard with excellent soils composed of a mixture of pebbles and fine sand on a clay-limestone structure. The vines are over 30 years old and are mostly planted on south-facing terraces and hilltops which provide excellent exposure to the sun and good ventilation - ideal for making quality wines. Château Chantegrive is managed by a pleasant family who are devoted to their profession, take the greatest care in their work and are attentive to the customer and the quality of the wines produced. "We like to produce elegant, top-quality wines with strong local character", says Françoise Lévêque. Their Caroline is a prestigious wine. We are quickly charmed by this rich, intense wine, matured in new barrels, with its lovely golden colour and intense, elegant nose of vanilla, fresh butter, lemon, griled almond and lime. The wine is smooth with a clean attack in the mouth dominated by fruit and flesh. |
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 Family winegrowing since 4 generations. The estate assumes the very full management of 4 ha of Sauvignon, 4 ha of Pinot noir and 2 ha Pinot gris. The culture is made in a traditional way: ridging, débuttage, incorporation of natural manure.
The Winegrowing proposes to you of Reuilly Sauvignon blanc 2007, of dress pale, brilliant and limpid, very pleasant, which associates freshness with elegance, of a nice aromatic complexity where one finds nuances of lemon and flowers white like this rosé Pinot gris 2007, with a complex nose where the blackberry joins raspberry, a mouth intense and refined at the same time, to open on spiced mets. Reuilly Pinot noir is of beautiful color to the purple reflections, with aromas of violet and blackberry. |
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