2005 Ch de Cugat Bordeaux Supérieur
Producer: Château de Cugat
Region: Bordeaux > Bordeaux Supérieur
Vintage: 2005
Type: Red
Grape varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc
Drinking dates: 2008 - 2012
Tasting Notes
- Goedhuis, March 2008
- Bold and rich, this medium-full bodied Bordeaux offers an aromatic nose of crushed bramble fruit, bright red cherry and a gentle earthiness. Produced from 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, it is mouthfilling and fresh.
Bordeaux Supérieur
When the Romans first planted a few vines on the limestone outcrops of St Emilion in the early years of the first century, and tasted what was, by all accounts, rather thin, bitter wine, they can hardly have imagined that the region's greatest red wines would become the most sought after fine wines in the world. From the days in the seventeenth century when the then owners of Ch Haut Brion, the de Pontac family, became the first to export to the UK, selling their wine in their own tavern, the Pontac's Head, red Bordeaux or claret has been the Englishman's favourite. The wines of the 1855 Classification are merely the tip of the iceberg. Bordeaux Supérieur is a widely used appellation in Bordeaux and refers to 10,000ha under vine, predominately of Merlot grape although some white and sweet wines can be found. These wines are entitled to a minimum permitted alcoholic strength of 10.5% which is half a percent higher than Bordeaux AC.
Château de Cugat
Château de Cugat is based in the region of Entre-Deux-Mers and was originally created in the 1500s. Today it is owned and managed by Benoît Meyer who acquired the estate from his grandmother. Their wines are stylish, offering good concentration and fruit yet retaining its Bordeaux roots.
Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot / Cabernet Franc
One of the most widely-found blends used throughout the Bordeaux region - including such legendary wines as Chateaux Haut-Brion, Cos d'Estournel, Ducru Beaucaillou and Leoville-Barton. At it's best this potentially perfect combination balances depth of flavour, ripe richness and taut tannic structure and length. It also produces some of the finest red wines from the Napa Valley in California and Stellenbosch in South Africa.
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