Château Moulin Pey-Labrie
What a beautiful winery from Bordeaux is Château Moulin Pey-Labrie. It is located in Canon-Fronsac, a sub-area of the famous Fronsac. The winery has existed from generation to generation and is a real family business. They make high quality Bordeaux wines and mainly red Bordeaux wine is a wine that can mature for a very long time. In short, ideal as a wine gift or wine gift.
Château Moulin Pey-Labrie has a great terroir
Besides the fact that the winery makes great Bordeaux wine, it is also located on the best surfaces imaginable. A combination of clay and limestone makes it perfect for merlot. This grape is the basis of the red wine from Canon-Fronsac. This ripens excellently in the dark clay of the Bordeaux wine region. The winery owns almost 7 hectares where it produces almost exclusively red Bordeaux.
The grapes in Bordeaux that provide the color red in the wine
As described above, this Bordeaux blend mainly uses merlot. Below you will find the percentages per grape variety:
- 96% Merlot
- 4% Malbec
Why a small proportion of malbec? Because this grape variety is known for the color it gives. The real red in a Bordeaux wine does not come from merlot. In the past, the wine got its color by adding Cahors wine, which was mainly made from malbec. With current vinification, wineries such as Château Moulin Pey-Labrie no longer need this.
Since the winery's existence, it has also grown. The owners also own Château Haut-Lariveau and Les Combes-Canon is also an owned wine estate. This is how the owners try to put their stamp on the market!
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When you buy a wine from Bordeaux, especially a wine that is more than 20 years old such as this Château Moulin Pey-Labrie, make sure that the recipient also finds it tasty. Of course, old Bordeaux wines do not taste like young flowers from, for example, Puglia or Rioja. These wines are often somewhat earthy and darker in taste. The wine loses its true fruitiness with age. Nevertheless, this can be very tasty.
