Château Talbot

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Coordinates: 45°09′33″N0°45′21″W / 45.15930°N 0.75570°W / 45.15930; -0.75570

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Château Talbot is a winery in the Saint-Julien appellation of the Bordeaux region of France. Château Talbot is also the name of the red wine produced by this property. It was classified as one of ten Quatrièmes Crus Classés (Fourth Growths) in the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855.

A winery is a building or property that produces wine, or a business involved in the production of wine, such as a wine company. Some wine companies own many wineries. Besides wine making equipment, larger wineries may also feature warehouses, bottling lines, laboratories, and large expanses of tanks known as tank farms. Wineries may have existed as long as 8,000 years ago.

Saint-Julien-Beychevelle is a commune on the left bank of the Garonne estuary in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France.

History

The Château used to be the property of Sir John Talbot, Governor of Aquitaine, Earl of Shrewsbury, in the 15th century.^[1] The property belonged to the Marquis of Aux for several decades, receiving its first Cocks & Féret lists in 1846 and 1855 and fourth growth classification in 1855, was then bought by Monsieur A. Claverie in 1899,^[1] before being acquired by Désiré Cordier in 1917.^[2] His son Georges, then his grandson Jean inherited the property and since his death in 1993 the present owners are his daughters Lorraine Rustmann and Nancy Bignon-Cordier, the fourth generation of the Cordier family.^[2]

John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, known as "Old Talbot", was an English nobleman and a noted military commander during the Hundred Years' War. He was the most renowned in England and most feared in France of the English captains in the last stages of the conflict. Known as a tough, cruel, and quarrelsome man, Talbot distinguished himself militarily in a time of decline for the English. Called the "English Achilles" and the "Terror of the French", he is lavishly praised in the plays of Shakespeare. The manner of his death, leading a charge against artillery, has come to symbolize the passing of the age of chivalry.

Cocks & Féret or simply Féret, is the colloquial name of a Bordeaux wine directory originally created by Charles Cocks and Michel-Édouard Féret in 1846, which was published under the name Bordeaux, its Wines and the Claret Country and translated into French and published as the first edition of Bordeaux et ses vins in 1850. It is regarded as the classic reference work on Bordeaux wines, and is to date considered the most comprehensive information source on Bordeaux' wineries.

Production

The vineyard area of Chateau Talbot extends 102 hectares (250 acres), located a short distance from the Gironde estuary, is among the largest in Bordeaux. The vineyard is on fine gravelly rises, which are well drained. The distribution of red wine grape varieties is 68% Cabernet Sauvignon, 28% Merlot and 4% Petit Verdot. The average age of the vines is 42 years old with a 45 hl/ha yield. There are also cultivated white grape varieties on 4 ha (9.9 acres), given to 80% Sauvignon blanc and 20% Sémillon.^[2] All the grapes are harvested by hand with no fewer than 180 grape-pickers^[3] and may be fermented either in wood or stainless steel tanks.^[4]

Vineyard Plantation of grape-bearing vines

A vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice. The science, practice and study of vineyard production is known as viticulture.

The Gironde is a navigable estuary, in southwest France and is formed from the meeting of the rivers Dordogne and Garonne just downstream of the centre of Bordeaux. Covering around 635 km² (245 sq mi), it is the largest estuary in western Europe.

Cabernet Sauvignon is one of the world's most widely recognized red wine grape varieties. It is grown in nearly every major wine producing country among a diverse spectrum of climates from Canada's Okanagan Valley to Lebanon's Beqaa Valley. Cabernet Sauvignon became internationally recognized through its prominence in Bordeaux wines where it is often blended with Merlot and Cabernet Franc. From France, the grape spread across Europe and to the New World where it found new homes in places like California's Santa Cruz Mountains, Paso Robles, Napa Valley, New Zealand's Hawkes Bay, Australia's Margaret River and Coonawarra regions, and Chile's Maipo Valley and Colchagua. For most of the 20th century, it was the world's most widely planted premium red wine grape until it was surpassed by Merlot in the 1990s. However, by 2015, Cabernet Sauvignon had once again become the most widely planted wine grape, with a total of 341000ha under vine worldwide.

Château Talbot produces three wines; an eponymous grand vin, a second wine called Connétable de Talbot released since the 1979 vintage,^[1] respectively aged 15 and 12 months in oak barrel, and one of the Médoc's oldest dry white wines, Caillou Blanc.^[5]

Second wine or second label is a term commonly associated with Bordeaux wine to refer to a second label wine made from cuvee not selected for use in the Grand vin or first label. In some cases a third wine or even fourth wine is also produced. Depending on the house winemaking style, individual plots of a vineyard may be selected, often those of the youngest vines, and fermented separately, with the best performing barrels being chosen for the house's top wine and the other barrels being bottled under a separate label and sold for a lower price than the Grand vin.

The Médoc is a region of France, well known as a wine growing region, located in the département of Gironde, on the left bank of the Gironde estuary, north of Bordeaux. Its name comes from (Pagus) Medullicus, or "country of the Medulli", the local Celtic tribe. The region owes its economic success mainly to the production of red wine; it is home to around 1,500 vineyards.

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References

1 2 3 Peppercorn, David (2003). Bordeaux. London: Mitchell Beazley. pp. 137–139. ISBN 1-84000-927-6.
1 2 3 Kissack, Chris, thewinedoctor.com Chateau Talbot
↑ Château Talbot, Harvest Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine .
↑ Château Talbot, Vatroom Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine .
↑ Château Talbot, Caillou Blanc Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine .

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[BDP-1] 1 2 3 Peppercorn, David (2003). Bordeaux. London: Mitchell Beazley. pp. 137–139. ISBN 1-84000-927-6.

[wdct-2] 1 2 3 Kissack, Chris, thewinedoctor.com Chateau Talbot

[Château_Talbot,_Harvest-3] Château Talbot, Harvest Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine .

[Château_Talbot,_Vatroom-4] Château Talbot, Vatroom Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine .

[Château_Talbot,_Caillou_Blanc-5] Château Talbot, Caillou Blanc Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine .