9 Cahors AC 2005 Cuvée Maurin
Domaine de la Berangeraie

Grape:100% Malbec (13% alc.)

Exceptional wine made from 100% pure malbec, this has a much deeper, almost black cherry colour. Given a longer cuvaison than the Cuvée Juline, it has more structure and a different aromatic profile - slightly tobaccoey, with fruit more redolent of figs/ prunes and a touch of menthol and spice on the finish. For drinking now to 2012.

* Magnums are available

Technical Information
Winemaker:	Maurin/Marlène Bérenger
Location:	Grezels
Size of domaine:	20 hectares of which Maurin is 4 hectares. 15-18,000 bottles produced per year.
Grape:	100% Malbec planted 1970 using clones. Average age of vines is now 35 years planted 5000 per hectare. Single guyot trained.
Terroir:	Red, iron-rich breccia, derived from the insoluble residue of limestones, dissolved away by millions of years of rainfall and soil formation. South-southeast exposure at 120 metres above sea level.
Viticulture:	Grass left to grow between rows, ploughs very deep every 3 years. De-buds and green harvests. Vineyards treated organically - no herbs or pests (SO2 and copper sulphate). Very severe 'eclaircissage' in June to leave only 5 bunches per vine. Harvest 100% by hand. 35 hectos per hectare.
Vinification:	Destalked 100% - pumped into cement vats with no crushing. Only use natural yeasts on grapeskins. 15 day cuvaison, with 3 remontages a day during alcoholic fermentation and one pigeage. Six to eight weeks total cuvaison. Juice from 1st pressing generally added back. Aged in cement, 4 rackings. Unfined, light filtration by plaque and bottled in June after 21 months.
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qty (bottles)

exc vat: £9.35