Château Peybonhomme-les-Tours

2024 Peybonhomme-les-Tours Cuvée des 2C, Vin de France

The Hubert family welcomes newborns Camille and Colette with this new cuvée, The 2 Cs. Syrah and Touriga Nacional, rare in the Gironde, find their place here through biodynamic farming, revealing a wine that is supple, ripe, and mineral, with soft tannins. An easy-drinking red, it is perfect lightly chilled for summer picnics, grilled foods, or simple shared plates like Portuguese petiscos.
France
Red
Biodynamic Wine

Region:  Blaye, Bordeaux

Appellation:  Vin de France

Varietal/Blend:  Syrah, Touriga Nacional

ABV:  11.5%

Vineyard & Vine Age: Syrah and Touriga Nacional, two rare varieties in the Gironde, are grown biodynamically on complementary soils: chalky clay for Syrah and gravelly silt for Touriga Nacional. Vines are trained in double Guyot, with winter grass cover and spring tillage. Average vine age is seven years, yields are around 30 hL/ha, and production is limited to 4,000 bottles.

Cellar: The grapes are blended at harvest and co-fermented. Vinification uses gentle whole-berry extraction with spontaneous fermentation by indigenous yeasts.

CSPC: 

Winemakers Note: 

What the Critics are saying: 

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Château Peybonhomme-les-Tours
2024 Peybonhomme-les-Tours Cuvée des 2C, Vin de France

Region:  Blaye, Bordeaux

Appellation:  Vin de France

France
Red
Biodynamic Wine
The Hubert family welcomes newborns Camille and Colette with this new cuvée, The 2 Cs. Syrah and Touriga Nacional, rare in the Gironde, find their place here through biodynamic farming, revealing a wine that is supple, ripe, and mineral, with soft tannins. An easy-drinking red, it is perfect lightly chilled for summer picnics, grilled foods, or simple shared plates like Portuguese petiscos.

TECHNICAL INFO

Varietal/Blend:  Syrah, Touriga Nacional

ABV:  11.5%

Vineyard:  Syrah and Touriga Nacional, two rare varieties in the Gironde, are grown biodynamically on complementary soils: chalky clay for Syrah and gravelly silt for Touriga Nacional. Vines are trained in double Guyot, with winter grass cover and spring tillage. Average vine age is seven years, yields are around 30 hL/ha, and production is limited to 4,000 bottles.

Cellar: The grapes are blended at harvest and co-fermented. Vinification uses gentle whole-berry extraction with spontaneous fermentation by indigenous yeasts.

CSPC: 

Winemakers Note: 

What the Critics are saying: 

Giovanni Autuori
Calgary + Alberta South

T: 403-971-1898

E: giovanni@vinoalvino.ca

Joe Gurba
Edmonton + Alberta North

T: 780-203-5284

E: joeg@vinoalvino.ca

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TECHNICAL INFO

Country:  France

Region:  Blaye, Bordeaux

Appellation:  Vin de France

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Varietal/Blend:  Syrah, Touriga Nacional

Fermentation:  Spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts in old oak puncheons.

Ageing: 

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Bull Swamp and Manilla vineyards in Baw Baw Shire. The vines were planted in 1961 and and 1964 respectively.

ABV:  11.5%

Produced Cases:  50

CSPC: 

Calgary + Alberta South

Andrew Stewart

403-604-0408

andrew@vinoalvino.ca

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Edmonton + Alberta North

Joe Gurba

780-203-5284

joe@vinoalvino.ca

Saskatoon + Saskatchewan South

Kerrie Gavin

306-290-0277

kerrie@vinoalvino.ca