81 Canon-Fronsac AC 2004 La Truffière
Château Cassagne Haut-Canon

Grape:60% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Cabernet Franc (13% alc.)

This vineyard has a superb terroir – a small steep-sided knoll overlooking the Dordogne – with a rich and varied mosaic of all the soils (Oligocene clays and sands with limestone on the hilltop) of the appellation. Aged in 40% new oak (the balance up to two years old), La Truffière is the château’s top cuvée. Very rich in its youth, it ages magnificently, gradually developing finesse and truffley notes on the nose, balanced by a nice minerality and freshness. For drinking now to 2013.

Technical Information
Winemaker:	Jean-Jacques Dubois
Location:	Saint-Michel-de-Fronsac
Size of domaine:	30 hectares
Grape:	60% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Cabernet Franc – 50 yrs average vine age
Terroir:	Oligocene clays & sands with shallow, stony limestone on a knoll overlooking the Dordogne
Viticulture:	45 hl/ha yield. Hand harvest & sorting using a table de trie
Vinification:	Pre-macération à froid. One month’s cuvaison in small cuves – vin de presse kept separate for each cuve and also barrel aged separately then blended as necessary. Malolactic in barrel. Batonnage until malos completed. Fining not systematic but carries out a light filtration. Aged in 40% new oak, 50% 1 year, 10% 2 year. Called ‘la Truffière’ after the truffle beds that surround the plantings of cabernet sauvignon
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