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1997 Phélan Ségur

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Saint Estèphe

Bordeaux

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Bordeaux Blend

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Thierry Gardinier, who has been in charge here since 1993, has overseen the recent installation of a new chai and winemaking team with the objective of making a vin de terroir. Vines have been pruned back, and extensive ebourgeonnage has further cut crop levels. There has always been a lot of vendange vert here, says Gardinier, but this measure merely causes the vines to overcompensate; it necessary to do the crop reduction much earlier in the season. Phelan-Segur is aged in 50% new oak with a medium-plus toast; because the wine is now put into barrel earlier, some of the malolactic fermentation occurs in oak. Production in recent years has been about 15,000 cases of Phelan-Segur and 15,000 cases of a second wine. The vineyards with the potential to go into the grand vin represent two very different terroirs, according to Gardinier: 15 hectares of clay-rich, redder soils near Calon-Segur and 35 hectares of finer, sandier soil near Montrose.

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