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Red · France
Chateau des Laurets 2018
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About this wine
Chateau des Laurets 2018 is a red wine from Bordeaux, France. The published blend is 80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc. Published figures: 14.5% alcohol, total acidity of 3.5 g/L, residual sugar of 0.7 g/L and a pH of 3.69.
The tasting card
- Producer
- Not published
- Wine
- Chateau des Laurets
- Vintage
- 2018
From the label - Region
- Bordeaux, France
From the shop's category - Appellation
- Not published
- Grapes
- 80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc
From the label - Sweetness
- Dry, from the US importer's tech sheet
- Farming
- No verified farming claim
- Alcohol
- 14.5%
From the label - Total acidity
- 3.5 g/L
From the tech sheet, printed for the 2018 vintage by the US importer named on the label (quintessentialwines.com) - Residual sugar
- 0.7 g/L
From the tech sheet, printed for the 2018 vintage by the US importer named on the label (quintessentialwines.com) - pH
- 3.69
From the tech sheet, printed for the 2018 vintage by the US importer named on the label (quintessentialwines.com)
Tasting note
violet hues; exceptionally fresh nose; intense black fruit; cedar; Morello cherries; velvety tannins; licorice; long and persistent finish
From the importer's sheet, in its own words, shortened.
Winemaking
From the US importer's tech sheet for the 2018 vintage. Only what the sheet prints.
- Aged for
- 14 months
- Aged in
- 30% in new barrels, 30% in second-fill barrels, and the remainder in vats
- Made
- cold soaking and fermentation in oak and stainless-steel vats; automatic temperature control; micro-oxygenation during maceration; malolactic fermentation in the same vats
Awards
None published.
Structure
A bar appears only where the producer published a number. Measured figures come from the producer's technical sheet; the body bar is inferred from alcohol and labelled that way.
14.5% alcoholinferred Body is estimated from alcohol. It is not a producer measurement.
absent Not measured. No producer tech sheet behind these wines publishes tannin as a number, so we show no bar.
0.7 g/L residual sugarmeasured From the producer's technical sheet.
3.5 g/L total aciditymeasured From the producer's technical sheet.
What the critics said
None on record.
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