Chateau Caronne Ste Gemme 2017 Haut Medoc

Chateau Caronne Ste Gemme 2017 with aroma and taste is pleasantly fruity with blackberries and ripe fruits with some tannins in balance.

Storage: For 12 months in both new and older French oak casks, has produced a wine whose dryness is in good balance.

Server for: Rich meat dishes and mature cheeses.

Chateau Caronne Ste Gemme 2017 is made with grape varieties: 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot, 30% Merlot. Cultivated with 10,000 vines per hectare, trellised and ploughed.
Harvesting is done 70 % manually and 30 % with a machine.
Vinification: After finishing with light crushing, there is temperature-controlled fermentation in cement or stainless steel vats for eight to ten days with light pumping over. Maceration for approximately three weeks.

The place:

Chateau Caronne Ste Gemme is located a very old "place called" "Carona" would come from the Gallic "little spring". As for Sainte-Gemme, it is the linguistic development of Saint Jaime or James, like that appears from the maps from the 18th century.
This parish was, in fact, on one of the branches of the road to Santiago de Compostela, which the Knights Templar installed in the nearby village of Benon provided security and facilitated the crossing of the river by pilgrims at Saint James. It was suppressed during the revolution and attached to the municipality of St. Laurent.

Wine production beginning:

Château Caronne Saint Gemme is located in St. Laurent and is a direct neighbor to the classified castles Château Gruaud Larose, Château Lagrange, Château Belgrave and Château Camensac. The fields cover an area of 45 hectares, which is predominantly planted with Cabernet Sauvignon and a third Merlot and approx. 5% Petit Verdot.

The wine production itself largely follows the same pattern as the larger estates. The aging of the wine takes place in traditional 225 liter casks of French oak for a period of 12 months. Of these, around 25% are brand new barrels. The bottling takes place approx. 20 months after harvest.

Château Caronne Saint Gemme was classified as "Cru Bourgeois Supérieur" in 1932 and as "Cru Bourgeois Exeptionnel" at the revision.