Domaine de Chevalier

This highly regarded estate is planted with 81 acres of red grapes (65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot and the balance split between Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot - the last planted in 1995).

The top soil is dark sand mixed with gravel over a subsoil of gravelly clay interspersed with iron-rich alios. The wine is vatted in squat stainless tanks that are wider than taller, allowing optimum extraction, and the wine undergoes malo-lactic and is aged in 50% new oak for around 21 months.