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Laure Peyruse, owner of Château Tour Castillon
produces the wine, she is its ultimate ambassador through
the wine tourism business she has grown over the past
twenty years.
“For a long time, vines grew amidst the cows, so the soils
are replete with fertilisers”. A dozen or so hectares of
Merlot, Cabernet-Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot
and Carmenere now thrive here under the AOC Médoc
Cru Bourgeois appellation. The property’s environmental
ethos advocates “a hands-on approach to maintaining the
vineyards so that the high quality sites that we have been
given in an ideal location opposite the Gironde estuary
can be sustained for the future.” This attention to detail
is applied in the winery too, where the wines undergo
lengthy, bespoke vatting before being matured in barrels
or amphorae.
“This allows us to produce elegant, gratifying wines which
are designed to be enjoyed in their youth but are also very
age-worthy. These are wines with staying power.”
Although they can be found in the estate’s online store,
they are also exported to Canada, the United States, Japan
and China.
48 WINTER 2021 GILBERT & GAILLARD - THE FRENCH EXPERTS ON WINE