Château Le Pin

Château Le Pin is a small vineyard in Pomerol, the wine area in Bordeaux to Bordeaux in southwest France.

History

In 1924, Madame Loubie earned a small vineyard. The estate included until 1979 only a single hectare. After the death of Madame Loubie it was purchased by the family Thienpont, which also includes the neighboring Château Vieux certan heard. 1984 were purchased 0.3 ha, and in 1985 the estate grew by a further 0.65 ha Instead of the vineyards to the Vieux Château certan add, the new owners decided to make the " Le Pin " a new premium wine. Just like the prototype Château Pétrus was dispensed with the term " château" on the label. In fact, it was possible within a few years to establish Le Pin in the top group of Pomerol. With the approach of creating on a tiny estate with uncompromising consequence of an outstanding new wine, Le Pin was the first " garage wine " of Bordeaux.

The wine

The only " Le Pin " called wine of the estate is one of the most expensive red wines in the world. A bottle of vintage 1990 for example, costs at least 1,000 € - if you can buy it at all. On 2 acres small estate more than 8,000 bottles a year are produced. With 92 % Merlot varietal wine is one that almost the best that has the Pomerol appellation has to offer. His outstanding especially from the late eighties quality and the fact that there is this wine only in extremely small amounts, make him a coveted object of speculation.

Production

The outstanding quality thanks to the " Le Pin " especially two facts: Firstly, it has one of the best terroirs of the plateau of Pomerol, lehmdurchsetzter gravel on ferruginous limestone bedrock ( " Crasse de Fer" ). On the other hand lets you wine bestowed every possible care: strict restriction of yield to around 30 hectoliters per hectare, hand-picking, fermentation in stainless steel and expansion exclusively in new oak barrels in which already takes place through malolactic fermentation. The wine is drawn off during the 18-24 months of aging in oak barrels every three months, fined with egg whites and then bottled without filtering.