WINES

Throughout the year, the highest care is taken over the vines in order to harvest the best. Our soils are plowed with horses, according to the tradition. Many manual tasks adapted to each vine are designed to ensure the best exposure to sunlight, good ventilation and an appropriate quantity of grapes.

All of these practices aim to express all the qualities of these exceptional terroirs in our wines. Harvesting and vinification are carried out with even greater precision at Château Cardinal-Villemaurine, thanks to redesigned facilities. Manual harvesting in small crates respects the harvest. The sorting is adapted, each year, to each parcel according to the quality of the harvest. The vatting is done by gravity in 5 raw concrete vats, thermo-regulated, whose volumes are adapted to respond to each plot. The alcoholic fermentation takes place at a regulated temperature between 23°C and 26°C depending on the potential of the vats and the desired tannin extraction.

Since the 2019 vintage, we have chosen to trust a single cooper, AnA Sélection, which each year offers barrels from a personalized selection of forests and toasts. Thus, each batch benefits from all the attention from the vine to the glass.