Château Gruaud-Larose
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 .
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
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
- Charles Cocks, Edouard Féret, Bruno Boidron: Bordeaux et ses vins . 18th edition. Èdition Féret et Fils, Bordeaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-35156-013-6 .
- Horst Dippel : The wine lexicon . 3. Edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-596-13826-4 .
- Robert Parker : Parker's Wine Guide (= Collection Rolf Heyne ). Heyne, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-453-16305-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .