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2000 Saint-Pierre (Saint-Julien)

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Saint Julien Grand Cru Classé

Bordeaux

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Merlot

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Maitre de chai Jean-Marie Galey describes this estate's 2001 as having more volume than its 2000, which he says was not especially high in natural sugars. The earlier year is "round and silky, but has less personality than 2001," he added. Yields here were in the 55 hectoliters-per-hectare range in both vintages.

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Saint-Pierre, one of the first properties in the Medoc to adopt the Entropie system to concentrate the must, recently purchased a larger machine capable of removing a portion of the water from 1,200 liters of fruit per hour, twice the capacity of their original device. "The important thing is that we must be able to follow the rhythm of the pickers," explained maitre de chai Jean-Marie Galey. Some of the 2000 lots needed little or no concentration, noted Galey, "but then we didn't generally begin with especially high sugar levels." Saint-Pierre then did a rather gentle extraction in 2000. Incidentally, the estate cabernet franc was not up to the quality of its cabernet sauvignon or merlot and was left out of the blend.