1999 Quinault L'Enclos
France
Saint Émilion Grand Cru Classé
Bordeaux
Red
Merlot
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Proprietor Alain Raynaud noted that he had to pick his grapes early in 2000 to avoid passerillage, suggesting that this very warm site within the city limits of Libourne did not do as well during the summer drought as properties on colder or more water-retentive soils (the pH here was lower than that of the '99 Quinault). Polyphenol levels were essentially the same as those of '99, which were quite high. The wine went through its malolactic fermentation entirely in barrel. The '99, bottled in January with a light fining but no filtration, has turned out splendidly; I would have picked it blind as a top Pomerol.
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Strong early demand for the '98 Quinault L'Enclos sent the price soaring on the secondary market, giving owner Dr. Alain Raynaud a tough decision to make for the '99, which will be a better wine. Raynaud means for the wine to be drunk, not traded, and thus, at least as of the beginning of April, hoped to hold the line on '99 pricing. This site near the Dordogne in Libourne is considerably warmer than most estates in and around the village of St. Emilion (the Quinault vines largely survived the killer frost of 1956). Its soil is also largely gravel and ferruginous sand, very much like that of the Pomerol plateau, and thus Quinault seems closer to Pomerol in style.
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