2014 Chateau Lamartine Cahors Expression

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

The Cahors, in the South-West of France, has become known for its solid, black wines. Nowadays, however, the wines are a lot softer and rounder than before. A good example of this is this Château Lamartine. Owner Alain Gayreaud makes with the Cuvee Expression a very concentrated red cahors of exclusively cot grapes. These are from its oldest vines that give a particularly low yield. After a long soaking, the wine ripens for twenty months in new oak casks, of which six months with the bulging technique known from Madiran. Here tiny tiny bubbles of oxygen are blown into the wine to soften the tannins.