La Sacristie de la Vieille Cure 2013

With its twenty hectares in one single plot in Fronsac, Château La Vieille Cure is one of the benchmark producers in the right bank of Bordeaux. The soil found in this site is heavy on limestone, lending the two wines at this estate a remarkably fresh quality. The average of the vines are 40+ years old and are all hand harvested. Indigenous yeasts are used in the cellar and the wines are aged in barrique, with about 30% of the barrels new. From the flagship Fronsac to the second label Sacristie de la Veille Cure, the wines have the ability to age gracefully for decades and are delicious textbook examples of pristine Bordeaux.

• Second label of the famed Chateau de la Vieille Cure
• Practicing organic
• 74% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Franc, 4% Cabernet Sauvignon
• Vineyard located on a plateau of limestone, bordering slopes with chalk and clay soils
• 100% hand-harvested grapes
• 30 year old vines
• Aged for 18 months in French oak (30% new)