Château Peybonhomme-les-Tours

2023 Les Vacances de Monsieur Merlot

A generous, plush, easy-drinking rendition of the right bank's signature darling: Merlot. This wine shows that careful, biodynamic farming brings great fruit into the winery and great fruit does not always need big oak and heavy extraction to deliver on the promise of great wine. A gentle maceration and slow fermentation followed by a short winter's élevage in concrete serves up a red-fruited, moreish Merlot packed with raspberry compôte, red plum purée, and red currant jam. This is an honest style of varietal merlot we all hope to encounter more often. A bistro wine par excellence.
France
Red
Biodynamic Wine
Vegan
Minimal sulphur added
Biodynamic Wine
Minimal sulphur added

Region:  Blaye, Bordeaux

Appellation:  Vin de France

Varietal/Blend:  100% Merlot

ABV:  14.5%

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

Cellar: 2024 Les Vacances de Monsieur Merlot is gently fermented in concrete with indigenous yeasts and a short maceration. The wine is aged six months in concrete, unfined and unfiltered, with less than 25ppm sulphur added.

CSPC:  118502

Winemakers Note:  []

What the Critics are saying:  []

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Château Peybonhomme-les-Tours
2023 Les Vacances de Monsieur Merlot

Region:  Blaye, Bordeaux

Appellation:  Vin de France

France
Red
Biodynamic Wine
Vegan
Minimal sulphur added
Minimal sulphur added
A generous, plush, easy-drinking rendition of the right bank's signature darling: Merlot. This wine shows that careful, biodynamic farming brings great fruit into the winery and great fruit does not always need big oak and heavy extraction to deliver on the promise of great wine. A gentle maceration and slow fermentation followed by a short winter's élevage in concrete serves up a red-fruited, moreish Merlot packed with raspberry compôte, red plum purée, and red currant jam. This is an honest style of varietal merlot we all hope to encounter more often. A bistro wine par excellence.

TECHNICAL INFO

Varietal/Blend:  100% Merlot

ABV:  14.5%

Vineyard:  2024 Les Vacances de Monsieur Merlot comes from estate vineyards at 70 meters altitude, biodynamic since 2000. Grown on clayey gravel soils with low yields, the vines are farmed naturally and bottled on a fruit day.

Cellar: 2024 Les Vacances de Monsieur Merlot is gently fermented in concrete with indigenous yeasts and a short maceration. The wine is aged six months in concrete, unfined and unfiltered, with less than 25ppm sulphur added.

CSPC:  118502

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:  100% Merlot

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:  14.5%

Produced Cases:  50

CSPC:  118502

Calgary + Alberta South

Andrew Stewart

403-604-0408

andrew@vinoalvino.ca

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Joe Gurba

780-203-5284

joe@vinoalvino.ca

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Kerrie Gavin

306-290-0277

kerrie@vinoalvino.ca