VIGNOBLES PUEYO Château Belregard-Figeac 1999
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| Colour | Red | ||
| Category | Still wine | ||
| Type | Blended wine | ||
| Country | France/Bordeaux/Saint Emilion | ||
| Appellation | Saint Emilion Grand Cru | ||
| Vintage | 1999 | ||
| Classification | AOC (vin d'Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée) | ||
| Format | 750 ml (Heavy bottle) | ||
| Grape varieties | Merlot + Cabernet Franc + Cabernet Sauvignon | ||
| Terroir | Graves | ||
| Climate | Océanic | ||
| The year’s weather | After a normal winter, a mild, wet spring. The flowering took place in good conditions and in a few days. The summer was relatively wet until the middle of August, then there was very fine hot weather until the harvest which began on September 13th. | ||
| Type of harvesting | Hand picking. | ||
| Vinification | Alcoholic fermentation for 8 – 10 days at 28°, then maceration for about a week, then a free run with separation of the free run from the press wine. | ||
| Ageing | 50% of this wine is put into French oak casks for a year, the rest into vats. About every two months it is drawn off in order to clarify and stabilize it by adjusting the amount of sulphur which is an essential element in keeping the wine. Blending enables a unique wine to be created from the different grape varieties. | ||
| Bottling | Some time before this operation the wine is naturally fined (clarified) with egg white. At the bottling stage we filter for a second time to remove all undesirable elements still in suspension. (MAY 2001) | ||
| Bottle | BSN PATRIMOINE (heavy bottle) | ||
| Cork | First quality natural cork (Portugal) | ||
| Label | Paste-on Matisset paper. | ||
| Capsule | Aluminium stamped and personalized “VIGNOBLES PUEYO” | ||
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| Cellaring | 10-12 years | ||
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