2011 Bordeaux has a high level of color and tannin. We need to retain the richness to create a fleshy, well balanced wine. Along with a slow, cooler extraction, we’ll also modify our barrel ageing program to help reach this target.

2011 St. Emilion is a unique vintage for Bordeaux wine. We have never seen anything like it before and that is why we like it!

“It was easy to wait. We walked in the vineyards daily to taste the fruit and picked when we considered it was perfect time to harvest!”

We can already feel and smell the huge fruit which is characteristic of Chateau La Clotte. Still we will really need to see what happens after the vinification.

2011 is the most difficult vintage I ever had. We call it the “Nerves war”. The various consultants wanted to be helpful. But with the 2011 Bordeaux vintage, they just don’t know how to help.

2011 Bordeaux is a dangerous vintage. We lived through draught, rain and a lot of sun, all in that order. The The entire Right Bank of Bordeaux seems to be a success so far. This includes St. Emilion as well as Pomerol!

Old vines and pre-phylloxera, ungrafted rootstock produced a 2011 Bordeaux vintage that allowed for wine to be made from microscopic yields of only 10 hectoliters per hectare this year!