Chateau Lamartine Cahors Expression 2016

	characterful red Cahors
	made from cot grapes from old vines
	beautiful, complex, powerful and intense
	good accompaniment for beef and lamb or powerful game

Tasting note Lamartine Cahors Expression

French, deep red wine with an aroma of black fruit and oak. The taste is powerful and intense, making this wine very good with beef or lamb and game dishes.

Description

The Cahors, in the South West of France, has become known for its strong, black wines. Nowadays, however, the wines are a lot softer and rounder in taste than before. A good example of this is this Château Lamartine. Owner Alain Gayreaud uses the Cuvee Expression to make a highly concentrated red cahors from exclusively cot grapes. These come from its oldest vines that give a particularly low yield. After a long maceration, the wine is aged for twenty months in new oak casks, six months of which with the bullage technique known from Madiran. Miniscule bubbles of oxygen are blown into the wine to soften the tannins.