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Château Tour Bayard
2022
France Bordeaux, Montagne Saint-Émilion
🍇80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc

Château Tour Bayard, is founded in 1956 by Angelo Nicoletti. His family settled in Bordeaux after the first world war.
Angelo Nicoletti fell in love with 10 hectares of land in the Montagne Saint-Émilion appellation and saw all the potential of the terroir.

Fanny his daughter joined him in 1970 after she got graduation, and now her son Julien Richard who returned after graduating with a degree in agronomy and gaining viticulture experience in California and Spain.
He purchased another 15 hectares, with specific plots on the land, innovating the vineyards with his personal touch and with the traditional wine processing.

The land is situated on the hillside Southeast and composed of Clay-Limestone soils, and well drained.
Soils are worked mechanical without herbicides and natural compost is used to respect biodiversity.

The wine, grapes are harvested by hand, double sorting and destemming,
Traditional vinification follows in small, temperature controlled concrete and stainless steel tanks to preserve the fruit.
A portion is also vinified entirely in 500 litre barrels.

👁️ Dark red
👃 Blackberry, black cherry 🍒, black plum, blackcurrant, cloves, forest floor mushroom 🍄, pepper hints of leather, vanilla, tobacco, chocolate, pencil shaving, cedar
👄 Dry, high medium to high acidity and tannins, blackberry, black cherry liquorice plum, jam, blackcurrant, vanilla, tobacco, earthly spices cloves with a great long finish
👌 Excellent to Outstanding wine, powerful and grilled steak 🥩, fries and salad,🍷🍷♥️

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