Chateau Caronne Ste Gemme “Landot” Graves Blanc 2015
An elegant and lively wine with notes of citrus, white flower, toasted bread and vanilla.
Only 3000 bottles has been produced.
$290
The vintage
Winery
Chateau Caronne Ste GemmeAppellation & Region
Graves, BordeauxBlend
60% Sauvignon Blanc, 40% SemillonSoil
gravelAlcohol Content
13%Vineyards & Vinification
Fruit of a collaboration with Catherine Boyer. This white “Landot” is crafted on the highest part of the gravel plateau des Moulins where the complex terroir and the old vines produce.
The Winery
Dating from 1648 Chateau Landot is a plot in Château Caronne Ste Gemme, bordering just south of St Julien. The plot neighbours Château Gruaud Larose and Château Lagrange.
The vineyard was first reported in 1648 when a local Landlord, Denys de Mullet of La Tour St Lambert rented it to a farmer in exchange of the wines produced. Caronne is derived from “Carona” for a local spring source, and Gemme a corruption of “James”.
In the middle-ages the locality was a parish on the grounds of a subsidiary to the Templar Commanderie at nearby Benon a few kilometres inland. The Parish was abolished during the Revolution and it is about this time that the first records of wine production at Caronne begin to emerge. In 1900 ownership of Caronne passed to Emile and Eugène Borie. The sons of Eugène would later cede their shares to their uncle and purchase Ch. Batailley and later Ducru-Beaucaillou whilst Emile’s descendance would remain sole owner of Caronne until this day. The property is now managed by François, the fourth generation with his brother Georges and his two cousins Michel & Jean François.
