Château Gruaud-Larose

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Château Gruaud-Larose in Saint-Julien

The Château Gruaud-Larose is a winery in the Bordeaux area in France . It is west of Saint-Julien and is surrounded by a well-tended garden with English lawn, flowers and white gravel paths.

In the classification of 1855 the winery was classified as Deuxieme Grand Cru Classé , the second highest level of this Bordeaux classification.

The manor house is a two-story, multi-wing mansion.

history

In 1757 the pastor Gruaud bought three small neighboring parcels on the high plateau of Saint-Julien-Beychevelle and united them to the Château Gruaud. His nephew, Sébastien Larose, finally renamed it Château Gruaud-Larose .

The garden with flowers lettering

After Gruaud's death, the estate was divided into two units, Gruaud-Larose-Sarget and Gruaud-Larose-Faure . In 1934 Désiré Cordier reunited the two goods by purchasing them. The 82  hectare estate was the flagship of the Cordier wine trading group in Bordeaux for decades . However, as a result of the group's economic problems, it was sold to Bernard Taillan's group in 1997. The winery is looked after by the oenologist Georges Pauli.

Products and their evaluation

Magnum (1.5 l double bottle), double magnum ( 3 l), Jeroboam (6 l)

About a third of the wine made is marketed under the label of the second wine Sarget du Gruaud-Larose .

The best recent Gruaud-Larose wine comes from the 2000 vintage , which was rated 94 Parker points (PP) by the wine critic Robert Parker . After the wines of the following years (2001–2008) were classified lower, Parker gives the 2009 and 2010 (provisional) 92–94 points. Previously well-rated years are 1990 (93 PP), 1986 (94 PP), 1982 (96 PP), 1961 (96 PP).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Clive Coates : The wines of Bordeaux. Vintages and tasting notes 1952-2003 . 1st edition. University of California Press, 2004, ISBN 0-297-84317-6 , pp.  137 .