Chateau du Perry - Malbec Cahors 2022
Price: $24.99
| Producer | Chateau du Perry |
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| Country | France |
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| Region | Cahors |
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| Varietal | Malbec |
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| Vintage | 2022 |
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| Sku | 15916 |
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| Size | 750ml |
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This is Cahors. It’s a small town of around 23,000 people situated on this striking u-bend on the Lot river, 100 miles east of Bordeaux. If you look closely at the picture (click on it to get a high-res version), you can see the Medieval buildings interspersed with the modern. Beyond, you can see rolling hills and farms. It’s a gorgeous, dramatic region situated in the Haut-Pays (the high country), and it’s also home to one of the worlds most important wine regions.
The town of Cahors lies about 100 miles east of Bordeaux, on the banks of the Lot river. Viticulture was first brought to this region by the Romans in the conquest of Gaul in 50 BC. Equidistant from the Atlantic (to the west) and Mediterranean to the (southeast), the Cahors region has very unique climate. The winters cold but the summers much sunnier and warmer than Bordeaux, producing near perfect phenolic ripeness with ease. In fact, before AOC stipulations prevented it, the Malbec grown in Cahors was often used to add color and body to the wines of Bordeaux. While Cahors once outranked Bordeaux in prominence, phylloxera and devastating frosts decimated their vineyards to less than a 6th of their size in the 1800s.
However today Cahors is in the middle of a renaissance. A ton of investment has been made in the region over the past two decades and a new wave of young vignerons are producing some of the finest wines the region has ever produced. A lot of these new Cahors reds are consumed locally. If you’re visiting France’s Sud-Ouest and dining in Toulouse, Carcassonne, or Narbonne chances are it’s a great bottle of Cahors you’ll be enjoying at the dinner table.
Wine Enthusiast: 93 Points
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