Château Les Croisille - Cahors - Calcaire 2022

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Keywords : Black fruits / Purity / Minerality

The wine : The name of this cuvée illustrates the chalky soils of the plots that enabled the creation of this beautiful Malbec evolving with finesse and elegance. Here we find the signature of the Croisille family with beautiful, charming dark fruits (cherry, plum, blackberry) and delicious supple tannins making the whole very easy to drink. A lovely complexity emerges from this bottle thanks to notes of graphite as well as a fine minerality. An excellent Cahors full of freshness and delicacy.

Volume : 75cl

Type : Red wine

Grape variety : 100% Malbec

AOC : Cahors

Aging potential : Ready to drink now and can be kept until 2032

Serving temperature : 16-18°C

The estate : In 1979, Bernard and Cécile Croisille arrived in the commune of Luzech, very close to Cahors, with no technical background but with a burning passion for the land and a life project. After difficult first years of planting and clearing their 7 hectares, the first harvest finally arrived in 1984. Initially involved in the cooperative system, the couple decided 10 years later to vinify their own cuvées. In 2000, a brand new winery was built and things accelerated when Germain, their second son, joined them at the estate. Then, Nicolas, Germain’s childhood friend, also joined the business in 2012. In 2013, the estate was officially converted to organic farming and in 2015 it was finally the turn of Simon, the youngest 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 around thirty hectares, allowing them to offer a fine range of wines from easy-drinking cuvées to complex and refined Cahors.