Winemaker: Jean-Baptiste Duquesne
AOC: Graves
Vintage: 2020
Vol: 12.6 %
RS: 0 g/L
Total Production: 3,239 bottles
Grape: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Vine Age:  years
Soils: Pleistocene Galets (Cazebonne)
Vegan: Yes
Allergens: None
Closure: Cork + Foil
Drinking Window: 3 - 6 years
Ethos: Certified BIO, Demeter
 
Producer: Jean-Baptiste Duquesne is a Bordeaux Pirate, shaking up the conventions of Bordeaux bureaucracy and challenging the status quo. After his selling his French cuisine recipe sharing website, he wrote the book "Bordeaux: Une Histoire de Cépages" which is a detailed history of 19th Century grape varieties in the Bordeaux.
Obsessed, he turned Château de Cazebonne into the largest library of ancestral grape varieties, such as: Mancin, Castets, Bouchalès, St-Macaire, Jurancon noir, Mérille, Béquignol, Pardotte, Gros Cabernet, Petit Péjac, Sauvignonasse, Penouille…. He has already planted 26 of the recognised historical varieties and aims to have all 57 planted by 2030...
 
Viticulture and Vinification: Small box hand-harvested Cabernet Sauvignon from a single parcel of alluvial galets on the plateau of Cazebonne, formed in lower-middle Pleistocene. Gravel and pebbles are exposed on the plots. Stainless steel fermentation then racked to terracotta amphorae for 5 months.