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Château de Cruzeau White
Hand picking, whole grape pressing, and fermentation and ageing in oak barrels with bâtonnage (lees stirring) are but a few of the quality-oriented winemaking practices enabling us to make the most of superb grapes. Featuring fruity and floral overtones, this wine consistently leaves the impression of a vivacious, distinguished wine.
Wine style
Fresh and Fruity
Grape blend
Sauvignon blanc 100%.
Weather
Temperatures were much higher than average from February to June, with much less rainfall than usual. There were already signs of drought at the end of Spring.
Tasting Comment
Appearance
This wine’s pale golden highlights seem to have captured the sun's rays…
Nose
Entirely made from Sauvignon blanc, it has typical varietal aromas of tropical fruit (passion fruit).
Mouth
The wine is quite smooth on the palate, with a delicate tang that gives decided freshness to the ripe fruit. Understated, barely perceptible oak adds further complexity. This wine is very attractive as of now. Served not too cold, it is ideal as an aperitif and with salads or seafood dishes.
Ratings and reviews
Part of the large empire of Andre Lurton, the 2011 Cruzeau is a nearly equal part blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. It reveals an attractive textural mouthfeel along with medium to full body, good ripeness, and smoky, black currant and licorice characteristics. This full, flavorful, supple Pessac-Leognan should continue to gain complexity over the next decade. It is another sleeper of the vintage.
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2011 white Château Cruzeau, this pure Sauvignon Blanc also obtained one star. It features a wide range of aromas (lemon, pineapple, vanilla and toasty overtones) and is very rich, fresh and long on the palate.
Lots of fruit here as well as beautiful minerality. An opulent, charming, very aromatic white wine. Perfectly balanced with just the right amount of vivaciousness.
Web only - Lively, with salted butter, chamomile and peach flavors, featuring a fresh, grapefruit rind-tinged finish. Drink now through 2014. (James Molesworth)
Aromatic citrus bouquet. A lovely clean, elegant, rich wine, ideal with food.
Totally elegant, fruity, mineral and vivacious, this is a particularly pleasant dry white, balance and charming.
Medals
Concours de Bordeaux Vins d’Aquitaine 2014
New york World Wine and Spirits Competition 2013
Consumption period
2013 - 2020
Our suggestions
Starters
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White meats
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Fish and Shellfish
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Cheese |
Salads |
Ground
Surface
27.00 ha
Soil
Ridges with deep gravel with zones of clay-limestone.
Winemaking
Grape harvest
By hand
Others
Graft stock
101.14 - Riparia gloire - 3309
Plant food
Traditional, limited impact.
Plant density
6,500 to 8,500 vines per hectare
Wine average age
18 years
Grape variety
Sauvignon blanc
Pruning type
Double guyot
Fermentation
on sediments in oak barrels
Fermentation temperature
18 to 23°C
Malolactic
No
Wine maturing
For 10 months in oak barrels (35% new) on full lees with bâtonnage
Maturing potential
Subject to vintage, between 2 to 15 years.
Recipes
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