Description
Gombaude-Guillot embodies the harmonious blend of the terroir of Pomerol’s great wines with an organic, biodynamic and natural approach. These wines are consistently elegant and balanced, combining finesse and complexity, with flavours that vary from vintage to vintage between blackberry and raspberry, before evolving into subtle roasted notes, sometimes with a hint of mint. It will take a few years for this exceptional 2016 vintage to reveal its full breadth and depth.
In the vineyard, in the cellar
The 2016 Gombaude-Guillot Pomerol in detail:
- Cultivation: 6.50-hectare estate, organically farmed since 1997 and biodynamically farmed since 2006.
- Grape varieties: 75% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc (vines over 40 years old) on glacial gravel soil with a subsoil of swelling clay and iron-rich soil.
- Vineyard management: Suckering, light manual leaf removal, green harvesting. Mechanical soil cultivation, no mineral fertilisers, no herbicides, controlled grass cover with sowing (cereals and legumes).
- Harvest: Manual and plot-by-plot depending on ripeness, first sorting on the vine, destemming, second sorting berry by berry on a sorting table.
- Vinification: “Natural” (indigenous yeasts, no additives except a small amount of SO2 below 40 mg/l), pumping over and racking, vatting for approximately 3 weeks, malolactic fermentation in temperature-controlled concrete vats.
- Ageing: In oak barrels, 30–75% new depending on the vintage, concrete vats and amphorae for 12–15 months
What to eat with a 2016 Gombaude-Guillot Pomerol?
- FOOD & WINE PAIRING
- Beef fillet en croûte. Woodcock salmi. Roast suckling lamb.
