Second wine
A second wine is a common mainly in the Bordeaux style, to declare wine and sell the quality of a winery may not appear entirely adequate for the great wine ( " Grand Vin ").
- 6.1 The erstklassierten plants
- 6.2 The second classified growths
Method
After the harvest, the wines are first expanded and made into wine varietal purity. After about four months, the assemblage is determined at the young Bordeaux wines: the composition of the blend, which you will create from the various games for the Grand Vin, Grand Vin. This is performed first prototype by varying the quantity and quality in the bottle scale.
In general, the Cuvée determination is teamwork; several people give their verdict in this procedure. It is blended and tasted even expected a lot, because the goal is ultimately a business: all of a good wine to bring in an optimal mix to achieve a maximum conversion of all wine matches. For this method then results, which are large containers in which received a pro rata amount of Compositions in the blending of the First wine.
The " remaining" lots or quantities are indirectly thereby " deselektioniert ", they form the selection set for the second wine, which goes through the same process. Also, it contains no bad wine. This wine is also carefully assembled and prepared for the subsequent sale by the barrel- storage: the second wine.
Third wines
In some materials is even divided into three categories. There is also a third wine is produced. The famous Premier Cru Château Latour in Pauillac good example manufactures as First wine the Château Latour one year, then the second wine " Les Forts de Latour ," which has now arrived at the level of a Cru Classé, and from the games that should not go into the second wine, a wine bearing the name " Pauillac de Latour " produced, still can beat high in his environment due to the high class producing many wines. This third wine is on closer inspection actually a second wine, as it (very similar to almost every other second wines ) comes from the young plants of the main vineyard during the grape " Les Forts de Latour " is produced on separate areas that are outside. The winery itself avoids the terms second and third wine, but positioned the wines priced accordingly.
The names for two wines are confusing on other goods. Very many " beginners " in relation to Bordeaux wines such as think of available in many supermarkets " Mouton Cadet " is the second wine of Château Mouton- Rothschild. He would, however, not correct even titled as' third wine ", and is in no way the " third wine " Pauillac de Latour comparable, either in price or in quality nor in the manner of its creation.
Mouton Cadet is in huge quantities ( and this in quite remarkable quality ) prepared from purchased grapes. The Cadet wine is true but it is finished in a huge " wine factory" on the Medoc Peninsula, far away from the classified goods. Only the ownership is identical to the estate of Mouton- Rothschild. The second wine is not the wine of Château d' Armailhac; this is one adjacent to Mouton Well, that was purchased decades ago by the Rothschild family and since time immemorial as a Grand Cru is Good, but standing in a rank lower than Mouton. The second wine of Chateau Mouton is often to be obtained only in small amounts " Petit Mouton ". Even at Château d ' Armailhac no separate second wine is made.
If you add the adjacent takes " other " Rothschild goods to these goods and many names (of Château Lafite -Rothschild ), then the choice is even more confusing:
To Lafite- group includes
- Château Duhart -Milon -Rothschild ( Lafite as well as a Grand Cru Classé Good )
- The " bourgeois" Château Clarke in the neighboring Listrac,
- The second wine of Duhart -Milon Moulin de Duhart,
- The second wine " Carruades de Lafite " from Château Lafite itself
Thus Lafite has indeed a true second wine, but not a third wine.
Even in middle-class goods, there are strong differentiations, an example is the Château La Tour de By Begadan, where up to four different wines are made , as a special feature (only in the best years ) a special cuvée in the quality nor the above " is Grand Vin " La Tour de By.
Possible types and reasons for deselection
The Deselektionieren can sort games aside,
For second wines do not even reach half the price of the first wine in most cases. However, but there are circumstances that can catapult a second wine in massive price regions: in the subscription of the extremely good year 2000 was an example of the second wine of Chateau Leoville -las- Cases, the " Clos du Marquis ," so sought after that dealer could also offer the second wine bottles for a three-digit price.
Lack of a second wine
There are also goods that completely do away with the quality control which the increase or reduction in amounts between first and second wines: this includes the Château d' Yquem. But here is selected: Either there are in a year a great wine from highly demanding, excellent quality, or the year has not turned out so well, then just the wine is as it is, less excellent, or it exists just not, by decision of the Directorate. It is known that individual years of Yquem did not enter the trade because it was more important for the material to preserve the reputation of an excellent wine, as that of "inferior " wine is traded under the name of Yquem. The wine is then sold as a simple " AOC Sauternes " ( in this case, without naming Yquem ) on the market to further expand, blending and bottling. This strategy of " all or nothing" also offers some so-called " garage wineries " with red wines.