Chateau Treytins Montagne-St-Emilion

Chateau Treytins Montagne-St-EmilionChteau Treytins is perhaps better known for its Lalande de Pomerol wine but since 1998 it has also produced a Montagne St Emilion the largest of Saint Emilion's satellite appellations. This is such a fantastic value wine with nearly 10 years of bottle age. Made of Merlot 90%, Cabernet Franc 8% and Cabernet Sauvignon 2%. The wine shows a well developed profile on the nose with red fresh plum, black cherry and raspberry fruit with a touch of cedar and

inexpensive place to start

with soft ripe pear

and are then destemmed and macerated for 14 days with regular pumping over

A little further past Montalcino in southern Tuscany

Whole bunches were hand harvested

The estate soils

The site benefits from a semi-continental maritime climate and free-draining chalk soils

The Cora has a bright

This is a light to medium bodied white from the Gavi DOC in Piedmont

The Xanadu Cabernet Sauvignon is elegantly structured with plenty of black fruit intensity on the mid-palate and a cedary oak influence

and complex

terroir-true red that balances elegance and drinkability