Cabernet Franc at Château Gruaud-Larose

David Launay was the Commercial Director at Château Gruaud-Larose in St.Julien, Bordeaux and has extensive experience helping in the cellar and in the vines. In 21015 he told us about the use of Cabernet Franc at the estate and how it plays a small, but important role in the final blend.

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Video Text: Cabernet Franc I would say originally is from the Loire Valley. And the Cabernet Franc enjoy in a way soils which are poor but with more sand on it. At the estate it is probably the least interesting gape variety, But in a way from time two times it’s really also adding a beautiful complexity. It’s like the 2006 Gruaud Larose, the 2011 Gruaud Larose or even the 2001 has quite a big amount of Cabernet Franc. Now when we say big amount at the Chateau is when the Cabernet Franc is reaching between seven to eleven percent, thirteen percent in in the blend and so and the Cabernet Franc when is getting old in the wine brings some some animal strong flavors musk, musk flavor is typical of Cabernet Franc. It’s more like a kind of farming in a way farming flavors in a way in the blends which which add of course some complexity to the wine it’s a very very elegant very it’s very nice.