Appellation: AOC Margaux (Bordeaux region)
 
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon (70%), Merlot (30%), Cabernet Franc (0% because of the frost in April)
 
Terroir: Gravels, clay, quartz pebbles, Arsac's terroir: sub area Tertre and Perrain.
 
Farming: Organic and Biodynamic 
 
Aromatics: Beautiful nose, this is a very perfumed wine with subtle smoky woody aromas perfectly integrated with just ripe blackberries and blackcurrants. This wine is all about finesse and I could keep smelling it for hours with it's dark chocolate and earthy notes. 
 
Palate: Soft and velvety attack, opening on a fleshy spherical wine with texture and impressive lengh. Like on the nose blackberries and blackcurrent are the main event here this is one of the pretiest Margaux I had the chance to taste. The tannins are present yet gentle and polished, I also like the sense of place and lengh of this wine as well as the smart use of oak and limited extraction. I think this gives the wine that perfect complexity and drinkability balance. This is a wine I love to drink and share now. Again this is for me a masterpiece from Stephanie and Michel.
 
About the wine: This is their best cuvee from a surface of 3.75 hectares, with 8,000 vines per hectare, and with most of the vines are 27 years old and some 7 years old. Yields are low with an average of 30hl / ha. The grapes are hand harvested in small crates including sorting in the vineyard. No foulage or no added yeast. Fermentation in concrete tanks. Aging in a reductive environment for 12 months in barrels with 50% of new oak barrels. Barrel makers are Taransaud, Ermitage, Berthomieu and Stockinger. Only 6,000 bottles are produced each year. Light filtration if needed, low sulfur.
 
When to drink: decant and drink now or 10-14 years after vintage.
 
Service: 15 to 16 degrees C. 
 
Food match: Grilled meat or grilled tuna, beef stew or a quality home made burger.