Château Puygueraud
Chateau Puygueraud, Francs Cotes de Bordeaux Red 2020
Chateau Puygueraud, Francs Cotes de Bordeaux Red 2020
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The vineyard of Puygueraud is located on a rocky plateau that overlooks the magnificent Dordogne valley, in a continuum until Saint-Emilion.
The 42 hectares of black grapes and 5 hectares of white grapes of the property are divided into 67 parcels, resting on clay and limestone soils with asterias, marl and clay subsoils.
Today 80% of the vineyard is planted in Merlot, 15% in Cabernet Franc and 5% in Malbec, the latter a grape variety dear to the founding father, George Thienpont. The whites are composed of Sauvignon Blanc and Sauvignon Gris.
Traditional soil management: light ploughing and aeration of the soil with inter-row planting of cereals in the autumn. Continual program of renovation of the vines: grubbing up and replanting. Numerous
manual interventions: de-budding, leaf-thinning and green harvest.
Winemaking : vating of whole grape berry in concrete and stainless steel vats, pigeage and pumping over. 12-16 months in wooden tanks and 225 L barrels renewed by third each year. Annual production is around 56,000 bottles.
The Thienpont family, a Flemish wine merchant invested since 1924 in the Pomerol vineyard of Vieux Château Certan and in 1920 with Troplong Mondot in Saint-Emilion (sold in 1935). The following generation, in 1946, George and Monica Thienpont, coming from their natal Flanders, moved into Puygueraud, restored the XVth Century chateau.
After a long pause in polyculture, they undertook the reconstruction of the vineyard whereby the first vintage would see the day in 1983.
Since 2009, Nicolas and his son Cyrille Thienpont, have worked hand-in-hand for the crafting of this wine that over the last 30 years has become the flagship of the Francs Côtes-de-Bordeaux appellation and a veritable jewel of Bordeaux.
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