2015 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 famous 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 originate 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. In this process, tiny small bubbles of oxygen are blown into the wine to make the tannins softer.