Château Les Croisille - Cahors - Calcaire 2021

ORGANIC

Key words: Black fruits / Purity / Minerality

The wine: The name of this vintage illustrates the chalky soils of the plots which made it possible to produce this beautiful Malbec evolving while finesse and elegance. Here we find the touch of the Croisille family with beautiful charming black fruits (cherry, plum, blackberry) and delicious soft tannins making the whole very digestible. A lovely complexity emerges from this bottle thanks to notes of graphite as well as a beautiful minerality. An excellent Cahors all in freshness and delicacy.

Capacity: 75cl

Type: Red wine

Grape variety: 100% Malbec

AOC: Cahors

Drinking and storing: Drink now and keep until 2031

Service temperature: 16-18°C

The estate: In 1979, Bernard and Cécile Croisille arrived in the town of Luzech, very close to Cahors, without any technical background but with a consuming passion for the land and a life project. After difficult first years of planting and clearing their 7 hectares, the first harvest of 1984 finally arrived. Initially invested in the cooperative system, the couple decided 10 years later to vinify their own vintages. In 2000, a brand new winery was built and things accelerated when Germain, their 2nd son, joined them at the estate. Then, Nicolas, Germain's childhood friend, also entered the farm in 2012. In 2013, the estate was officially converted to organic farming and in 2015 it was finally it's the turn of Simon, the last of the Croisille siblings, to join the family adventure in 2015. In recent years, the wines have continued to gain in precision and the Croisille family now has of around thirty hectares allowing them to offer a beautiful range of wines ranging from pleasure vintages to complex and refined Cahors.