Cahors GC
Appellation
Cahors
Farming
Sustainable, Organic
Varietals
100% Malbec
Vineyards & Viticulture
The 27 hectare vineyard is planted on three parcels. Numerous passes are made in the vineyard to ensure the perfect health, quality and ripeness of the grapes, and all the work is carried by hand as, since 1992, no chemicals have been used. The grapes for GC come from vines planted in early 1950s-1960s, located on the prized third row of terrasses and cropped at yields of only about 15hl/ha (just 3 bunches per vine).
Soils
Colluvial limestone; pebble stones with ferruginous red sands and siliceous earth/clay
Harvest & Vinification
Manually harvested then sorted in the vineyards, the grapes are destemmed upon arrival in the cellar. Macerated and fermented for 40 days in open top, 500 L oak vats, with regular punching down of the skin cap at the beginning of fermentation for extraction of color and tannins. Malolactic conversion occurs in these same barrels, followed by 30 months maturation on fine lees for 24 months. Bottled unfined and unfiltered, with minimal sulphur.
