Chateau Prieure-Lichine, Margaux 2020 - OWC of 12 Bottles x 75cl Chandon de Briailles

Chateau Prieure-Lichine, Margaux 2020 - OWC of 12 Bottles x 75cl Chandon de Briailles"Medium to deep garnet purple in color, the 2020 Prieure Lichine offers up notes of fresh redcurrants, blackcurrant pastilles, boysenberries and dried Provence herbs, plus wafts of tobacco leaf and pencil shavings. Medium bodied, the palate delivers a great intensity of pure black and red fruit flavors, framed by grainy tannins and a lively backbone, finishing long with a refreshing herbal lift." WA: 91 93, BETTANE & DESSEAUVE : 93 94, DECANTER : 93,

The wine is fermented in stainless steel tanks at a controlled temperature of 16 C

Much of the fruit from those clay soils ends up in the second wine

5% Sauvignon Gris and 5% Sémillon

After a long pause in polyculture

straight or on the rocks after a meal or made into a delicious Manhattan or Old Fashioned

These noble grapes rarely thrive in the heat of the Mediterranean coast

Aged 50 % new barrels

but it should develop nicely with time in bottle

deleafing is now less extreme and less systematic

It spends about 6 to 9 months of its life in oak barrels with one third in new barrels

Larrivet Haut-Brion presently has 75 hectares of vines

In the winery