| Single Bottles (75cl) @ £30.00 |
| Cases (12 bottles) @ £360.00 |
| Cases IN BOND(12 bottles) @ £275.00 |
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Tasting Notes: Pascal is clearly pleased with his wines in 2009. Chateau du Cedre is regarded as, probably, the very best estate in Cahors, certainly in the modern style, and Pascal Verhaeghe is at the forefront on experimentation to make his wines better without losing their typicity. Usually these are wines to age, particularly as Pascal used to use 100% new oak. However, he has cut this back with the 2009 vintage which was aged 22 months in a mixture of new and second year oak barrels. This is a stunning wine: wonderfully ripe with complex fruit and floral characters and both concentrated and elegant (just the sort of wine we like) with a delicious, long finish. Refreshingly, not too alcoholic (13.5%) this means the fruit has a chance to come through without being dominated by alcohol. There is some oak on the palate but it isn't anything to be concerned about: there is plenty of fruit to compensate. Delicious. | Drinking Dates: 2017 to 2029 | Cépagement: 100% Malbec | Upbringing: 80% aged in new oak barrels, 20% in second year barrels | ABV: 13.5% |
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