Chateau Caronne Ste Gemme cuvee “Landot” 2016
A richly smooth wine. Now approaching maturity, it offers a dense texture and minty flavours alongside ripe black fruits.
Dating from 1648, “Landot” is a plot in Château Caronne Ste Gemme, bordering just south of St Julien. The plot neighbours Château Gruaud Larose and Château Lagrange.
$360
The vintage
Winery
Chateau Caronne Ste GemmeAppellation & Region
Haut-Medoc, BordeauxBlend
80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlots, 5% Petits VerdotSoil
gravelAverage age of vines
30 yearsVineyards & Vinification
Dating from 1648, “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, The terroir here is composed of deep günzian gravel on a base of iron rich sandstone
The wine making The grapes are destalked, then slightly crushed and sent into stainless steel fermentation vats which are thermo-regulated. Fermentation is led at the temperature of 28/30° Celsius with light “over the top” pumping for a soft extraction of the skins. The maceration can last from fifteen days to three weeks. The wine was aged exclusively in French barrels for 16 months. The wine is fined and finally bottled at the vineyard.
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.
