Château Tour Baladoz Saint-Emilion grand cru classé

The dominance of Merlot explains the dark color of the wine. You will immediately discover aromas of red fruit with oak and spicy notes. The wine starts powerful and full in the mouth, with a beautiful tannin structure and reveals a long, fresh finish. This wine is only available by the case. This wine has now become a grand cru classé.
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To serve with:
This wine pairs perfectly with duck breast, lamb rack, ribeye, etc. Please open this wine a few hours before serving. Decanting is highly recommended! Serve at 18°C. 

Storage:
This wine is ready to drink now but can be stored in the cellar until 2035, so there is still some time. The wine will also continue to evolve, with aromas like toast, cedar, vanilla, mushroom, etc., becoming more pronounced.

Additional information:
The typical Saint-Émilion wine from the limestone plateau

An old estate, high-quality terroir, and expertise in winemaking from vine to bottle ensure the good reputation of the wines produced at Château Tour Baladoz. These wines are characterized by their persistent freshness and minerality, reflecting their terroir.

Vinification and aging
After a cold maceration before fermentation, the wine is kept on the skins for 15 to 30 days in concrete and stainless steel tanks of various sizes for refined fermentation per plot. Each operation is performed according to the vintage and grapes, and all tanks are independently analyzed. The applied methods are determined by tasting the grapes and assessing the vineyard conditions, and then tasting the juice.

The wines mature for 15 to 20 months in French oak barrels from 10 different cooperages, 70% of which are new barrels.
Highly recognizable minerality:
These wines are produced on the best limestone terroirs in the Saint-Émilion appellation (30 to 50 meters above the mother rock). It is therefore only natural that they express the minerality of their terroir.

All vines on the plateau are planted on 2 or 3 levels of quarries extending up to 11 meters underground. During our underground expeditions, it is not uncommon to discover clusters of vine roots capturing the humidity of the air on rocks 8-10 meters below the surface.

While 70% of the vines are planted on the plateau, the remaining 30% are grown on steep slopes in a small valley, reflecting the rich diversity of the terroir. This ranges from pure limestone to marl limestone characteristic of the Champagne region to tuff to multicolored clay soils (red clay, clay-limestone, and even blue clay characteristic of the Pétrus vineyard).