Chateau Charmail Haut Medoc Bordeaux Wine

Charmail Chateau 300x238 Chateau Charmail Haut Medoc Bordeaux Wine

Chateau Charmail, Haut Medoc, Bordeaux wine producer profile, with wine tasting notes, wine ratings, a history of the property, information on wine making and terroir, along with wine tasting reviews. If you want to read about other important, Bordeaux Chateaux: Links to all Bordeaux Wine Producer Profiles

Charmail and Olivier Sèze are best known in the Bordeaux wine trade for being the first chateau to practice the technique of pre-fermentaion, cold maceration, whereby the temperature of the fruit in the tanks is dropped to as low as 5° C and held there for up to two weeks.

After a 15-day cold soak @ 5° C prior to fermentation, fermentation ensued in stainless steel tanks with a 21-day cuvaison. The wine ages for close to 12 months in 30% new, 30% one-wine old, and 40% two-wine old French oak barrels.

This 22.5 hectare Bordeaux wine property has a vine density ranging between 6,666 to 8,700 vines per ha. The terroir is clay and gravelly soils. The vineyard is planted to 47% Merlot, 35% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot. On average, the vines are close to 30 years of age.

The property makes a second wine, Saint Seurin. The estate produces close to 10,000 cases of Bordeaux wine per year.

www.chateau-charmail.fr

Tasting Notes

Displaying 3 notes Sorted by vintage

  1. 2011 Château Charmail ( France, Bordeaux, Haut-Médoc ) Find this wine to buy

    1. 89 points - Tasted

      From 50% Merlot, 33% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot, tobacco, earth and cassis scents and a soft, sweet cherry finish are found in this well-priced Bordeaux value wine. 88-90 Pts

  2. 2005 Château Charmail ( France, Bordeaux, Haut-Médoc ) Find this wine to buy

    1. 90 points - Tasted

      This early drinking charming Bordeaux wine offers loads of fresh juicy creme de cassas, licorice, blackberry, black raspberry and earthy aromas. This is soft, round and already accessible. This is a solid Bordeaux value wine.

  3. 2000 Château Charmail ( France, Bordeaux, Haut-Médoc ) Find this wine to buy

    1. 89 points - Tasted

      This fully mature Haut Medoc, produced from an assemblage of 50% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc and 25% Cabernet Sauvignon offers tobacco, earth, cassis and leafy forest aromas. Medium/full bodied, with soft textures that display the patina of age, the wine ends with a red plum, earth, herb and cranberry finish. There is no reason to hold this wine any longer. Drink up.

29 queries. 2.081 seconds.