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Château La Louvière Red
Château La Louvière has many fascinating facets. The sumptuous architecture of the château building dates from the late 18th century, but winegrowing here goes back more than 700 years. The first vines were planted circa 1310, although modern winemaking dates from the 17th century and was handed down by able monks from the Carthusian monastery in Bordeaux, who had acquired considerable talent as viticulturists and winemakers. The people who produce the wine in the 21st century have inherited these time-honoured methods, adding just the right amount of innovation and modernity to make the utmost of the outstanding terroir. La Louvière's red wine has a dark colour and an elegant bouquet with delicate hints of oak...
Wine style
Full and Complex
Grape blend
Cabernet Sauvignon 64% / Merlot 30% / Cabernet Franc 3% / Petit Verdot 3%.
Weather
2007 was cool and wet from May to August, and not particularly conducive to ripening for the red wine varieties. A beautiful month of September – warm and relatively dry – meant that the grapes could be picked over a long period at perfect ripeness.
Tasting Comment
Appareance
Deep garnet-red colour.
Nose
The bouquet has a pleasant mineral quality as well as hints of tobacco and cigar box. Attractive ripe black fruit aromas are released when the wine is swirled in the glass.
Mouth
The palate has powerful stewed black fruit and Morello cherry flavours, followed by black pepper that wakes up the taste buds, as well as subtle toasty nuances due to barrel ageing. (Johanna Dayer - July 2013)
Ratings and reviews
Jean-Marc Quarin - Dark colour with good intensity and starting to show a little age. Ripe fruit on the nose, with new oak and typical Merlot aromas. Fruity, tight, and attractive on the palate, with a medium-long aftertaste. 2012-2017.
Impressive to date, this 2007 has kept its charm but seems less voluminous.
This Pessac red displays power and balance, with aromas that blend black fruit and toasty notes. Upfront, the palate is round, voluminous and fleshy.
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The charm of this elegant neoclassical château, with its fine park and ornamental lake, is enhanced by the aura of its owner, André Lurton, who has spent over thirty-five years restoring the vineyards and buildings. Here you get a true sense of what Bordeaux is all about, even in a difficult vintage like 2007. This red Pessac is a blend of two thirds Cabernet Sauvignon, one third Merlot, with just a smidgeon of Petit Verdot. Its crimson highlights, delicate spiced oak nose, breadth and opulence, elegant structure and firm tannins are hallmarks of a wine of character. Wait two years, then enjoy with a choice beef roast or a steak. The 2005 and 2000 were "Coups de Coeur".
A neighbour of Carbonnieux and Haut-Bailly, majestic Château La Louvière is one of the most effective ambassadors of Pessac-Léognan around the world. La Louvière's wines are powerful and austere, but unfailingly good and age superbly. Dark red colour with a toasty nose. Elegant and smooth on the palate with average e toasty nose. Elegant and smooth on the palate with average length, but plenty of refinement. Attractive wine. 2010-2018.
A big, earthy, berry fruit, spice box, and unsmoked tobacco-scented nose is followed by a lovely, fruit-foward, medium-bodied, soft wine that is meant to be consumed over the next 5-6 years. (Robert Parker)
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Oak dominates the nose now with some black fruit characters behind. A compact, tightly structured palate of black fruits and leafy notes, very firm tannins and a long, lingering finish. With time the oak and tannins will soften. From 2015.
Guide d'achat des crus - Attractive fruit, balanced palate.
Great success.
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Attractive ruby colour. Raspberry and red fruit notes. Expressive nose. Fluid and seductive, balanced, slightly linear finish.
Aromas of blackberry and mineral follow through to a medium body, with fine tannins and a clean finish. (James Suckling)
Consumption period
2013 - 2022
Our suggestions
White meats
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Ground
Surface
46.00 ha
Soil
Deep gravel
Winemaking
Grape harvest
By hand with small deep crates
Others
Graft stock
101.14 - Riparia gloire - 3309
Plant food
Traditional, limited impact
Plant density
8,500 vines per hectare
Wine average age
26 years
Grape variety
Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot
Pruning type
Double Guyot with debudding
Fermentation
In stainless-steel temperature-controlled tanks with patented cap-breaking system and concrete tanks with pigeage
Fermentation temperature
28 to 30 °C
Malolactic
Yes
Wine maturing
For 12 months in oak barrels (40-50 % new) with racking
Wine montage
Egg white
Maturing potential
Subject to vintage, expressive between 3 and 5 years, can age 15 to 30 years.
Oenologist consultant
Michel ROLLAND and Mikaël LAIZET.
Recipes
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