Château Julia, Haut-Médoc, 2020
Grand Vin de Bordeaux, AOC Haut-Médoc
60% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon
Manual harvest and a hand triage on sorting table. Fermented in stainless steel followed by 18 months in used barrel.
14% alc.
Black cherry, vanilla, baking spice and so much freshness at the same time. A classic, elegant Bordeaux.
On the sandy Medoc plains around the village of Pauillac, down a dirt track road there are two small parcels making up about 30 rows of 60-year-old Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon vines planted by Sophie Martin’s father and grandfather. They sold the grapes to local cooperatives until 2010, when neighbouring coop growers started selling their land to Lynch-Bages, Sophie decided to build a barn in her garden and buy winemaking equipment.
Grand Vin de Bordeaux, AOC Haut-Médoc
60% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon
Manual harvest and a hand triage on sorting table. Fermented in stainless steel followed by 18 months in used barrel.
14% alc.
Black cherry, vanilla, baking spice and so much freshness at the same time. A classic, elegant Bordeaux.
On the sandy Medoc plains around the village of Pauillac, down a dirt track road there are two small parcels making up about 30 rows of 60-year-old Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon vines planted by Sophie Martin’s father and grandfather. They sold the grapes to local cooperatives until 2010, when neighbouring coop growers started selling their land to Lynch-Bages, Sophie decided to build a barn in her garden and buy winemaking equipment.
Grand Vin de Bordeaux, AOC Haut-Médoc
60% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon
Manual harvest and a hand triage on sorting table. Fermented in stainless steel followed by 18 months in used barrel.
14% alc.
Black cherry, vanilla, baking spice and so much freshness at the same time. A classic, elegant Bordeaux.
On the sandy Medoc plains around the village of Pauillac, down a dirt track road there are two small parcels making up about 30 rows of 60-year-old Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon vines planted by Sophie Martin’s father and grandfather. They sold the grapes to local cooperatives until 2010, when neighbouring coop growers started selling their land to Lynch-Bages, Sophie decided to build a barn in her garden and buy winemaking equipment.
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On the sandy Medoc plains around the village of Pauillac, down a dirt track road there are two small parcels making up about 30 rows of 60-year-old Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon vines planted by Sophie Martin’s father and grandfather. They sold the grapes to local cooperatives until 2010, when neighbouring coop growers started selling their land to Lynch-Bages, Sophie decided to build a barn in her garden and buy winemaking equipment.
Her 0.62 hectares of Pauillac vines in the Bages lieut-dit produce around 3 - 4,000 bottles each vintage, making her the smallest Pauillac producer by a short mile.
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Manual harvest. Ageing 18 months in barriques, soutirage à l’esquive, collage in barriques. Bottled on the property on 21 May 2021.
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Jancis Robinson (17.5)
This is, quite simply, thrilling. The fruit has superb purity – it's lifted, lilting, fluid, filling every corner with intention. At the same time, it has structural poise, haute couture, fine gravel-chiselled tannins with the cool minerality of rain-wet stones. Complex and tense. Quintessentially Pauillac. The quiddity of the terroir but utterly without conceit. Chapeau! Good Value (TC) -
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