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Chateau Le Pin 2010
Chateau Le Pin 2010
by Château Le Pin 2010
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Producer : Château Le Pin
Region : Bordeaux (France), France (France)
Bottle Per Case : 1 x 750 ml
Food Pairing : Breads, Cured Meat, Hard Cheese, Red Meat, Roasted Vegetables
Tasting Notes
"Made from 100% Merlot (one percent for each rating point I’ve assigned), this wine is explosively rich and compelling. Dense plum/purple, it boasts the remarkable delineation and freshness that are hallmarks of this vintage. From a much smaller production than normal because of Merlot’s poor flowering, the very hot, dry growing and harvest conditions, this is a super-endowed, very rich Le Pin with its exotic new oak largely buried behind its extravagant concentration, power and richness. I don’t know what its natural alcohol level is, but I suspect it is pushing 15% in 2010. Rich, tannic, but exceptionally well-endowed, this is a sublime example of Merlot at its very finest. Forget it for 5-7 years (which is somewhat unusual for Le Pin) and drink it over the following three decades."
100 points - Robert Parker, Feb 2013
Specs
| Bottles Per Case | Single Bottles |
|---|---|
| Point Score | 100 |
| Bottle Size | 750 ml |
| Producer | Château Le Pin |
| Region | Bordeaux (France), France (France) |
| Alcohol | 14% alc./vol. |
| Style | Warm and spicy reds |
| Vintage | 2010 |
| Farming Method | Sustainable |
| Grapes | 100% Merlot |
| Food Pairing | Breads, Cured Meat, Hard Cheese, Red Meat, Roasted Vegetables |
| Descriptors | Earthy, Floral, Fruity, Mineral |
| Wine Type | Red |
| Wood Presence | Oaked |
| Body | Medium |
| Price of Case | $6, 495.00 |
The Producer
Château Le Pin
Château Le Pin is an unusually small estate located on the Right Bank of France's Gironde estuary in the commune of Pomerol in the hamlet of Catusseau, and its wine is frequently one of the world's most expensive red wines.
Madame Laubie, whose family had owned the plot since 1924 sold the one hectare vineyard in 1979 to the Belgian Jacques Thienpont for 1 million francs. The vineyards were developed by Jacques Thienpont whose family own the neighbouring Vieux Château Certan, and the wine was produced in tiny quantities from a farmhouse basement. The property was already called Le Pin from a solitary pine tree that grows near the winery. Today the estate comprises 2,7 hectares in one contiguous vineyard surrounding the winery. In 2011 a new winery, designed by the Belgian architectural firm Robbrecht en Daem, uses small stainless steel vats and gravity to move the wine.
Château Le Pin is considered by some a predecessor of the ‘garage wines’, although this idea is rejected by many, including by the proprietors, on the basis of the merits of the terroir, and the absence of extreme measures to compensate for mediocre grapes.
The winery is currently managed by Jacques Thienpont, and additional tiny plots of land have been acquired.
The vineyards extend over 5 acres (2.0 ha) of sandy gravel topsoil on a bedrock of limestone, with a grape variety of 100% Merlot the vines averaging 38 years of age. Typically 600 to 700 cases are produced per year.
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