A.O.C Saint-Estèphe

Domaine de la Ronceray is located with a privileged situation on the great plateau of Saint-Estèphe on clayey chalk and stony subsoil.

Size of estate : 2 hectares vineyard. Grape varieties : 65% de Cabernet sauvignon, 35% de Merlot. The average age of the vines is 35 years.

The harvest is late to ensure a good and complete maturity of the grapes. The vinification is traditional with a long vatting, frequent pump-overs during fermentation, and a perfect control of temperatures thanks to an efficient thermoregulation system. After flows, the wine is sung in new oak barrels selected and renewed every year (30 to 40%). During the shelf life of about 15 months, it is regularly racked and then glued naturally and without filtration before bottling. An underground cellar with ideal temperatures and hydrometry allows bottles to be stored in the best conditions for aging.

Tannic wine with a lot of roundness and sweetness.
Its colour is ruby coloured, deep with purplish reflections. Its nose is frank and expressive. Its 12-month aging in oak barrels gave it a vanilla and toasted nose, silky palate and round tannins.
A wine with an aromatic persistence, which can be drunk now but also with a potentail of aging thanks to its tannins.

Environ 5000 bouteilles

HVE3

90 points James Suckling

90 points Yves Beck

A.O.C. Saint-Estèphe

Domaine de la Ronceray is located with a privileged situation on the great plateau of Saint-Estèphe on clayey chalk and stony subsoil.

Size of estate : 2 hectares vineyard. Grape varieties : 65% de Cabernet sauvignon, 35% de Merlot. The average age of the vines is 35 years.

The harvest is late to ensure a good and complete maturity of the grapes. The vinification is traditional with a long vatting, frequent pump-overs during fermentation, and a perfect control of temperatures thanks to an efficient thermoregulation system. After flows, the wine is sung in new oak barrels selected and renewed every year (30 to 40%). During the shelf life of about 15 months, it is regularly racked and then glued naturally and without filtration before bottling. An underground cellar with ideal temperatures and hydrometry allows bottles to be stored in the best conditions for aging.

Powerful, complex nose, black fruits. Aging in barrels gives it an elegant nose with vanilla notes.
The palate is round and silky with tannins.

Balanced, long, full palate. Pretty ripe fruits.

Nice now but will only be better in 3 or 4 years. Quite large aging potential, 10 years without worries.

6000 bottles.