Ownership
M. Xavier Jean
Director
M. Denis Pomarède
Oenologist
M. Thomas Duclos
Presentation
We harvested CALICEM on September 27, 2019, a date comparable to that of the 2015 and 2018 harvests. The berries were fully ripe and dense, but also well balanced, revealing complex aromatics as soon as they arrived on the sorting table. There was no search for too much oak, instead to emphasize silky and naturally concentrated
tannins from these very old vines, while keeping
CALICEM trademark long, saline and salivating finale.Origin
Saint-Emilion Grand Cru
History
Plot acquired in 2014, adjacent to the classified plots of Couvent des Jacobins on the Southwest Slope, and at the Lieu-dit Mazerat, at the heart of the Southwest Amphitheater.
Estate size
About 1 hectare
Vineyard age
Vines of about 60 years.
Yield
Yields were limited to about 25 hectolitres per hectare given the age of the vines.
Production
Only about 2,300 bottles plus a few large formats.
Blend
100% merlot.
Vine works
Special attention placed on managing the old age of the vines. Plot conducted using the requirements of organic farming.
Harvest
100 % hand harvests on September 27, 2019, with a first grape selection on the vine.
Winemaking
Whole-barrel vinification ('vinification intégrale') in six 500-litre barrels for the whole plot. Daily slow manual pigeages for color extraction. Barrel-specific extractions at moderate temperatures to obtain silky tannins.
Ageing
Exclusively in new French oak barrels of 500L from the Allier / Tronçais / Bertranges forests. Ageing during 22 months in oak.
Miscellaneous Data
Alcohol: 14.5% vol. and pH of about 3.70. CALICEM 2019 was bottled in September 2021.