Description

Located on the same rocky plateau as Saint Emilion and Pomerol, but in the Côtes de Francs appellation, Château le Puy produces a wine that is the fruit of the use of ancestral methods and that is as natural as possible: no chemical fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides, pesticides, etc. The average age of the vineyard is 55 years and the planting density is just over 5000 plants per hectare. Whatever one thinks of biodynamic viticulture, the fact remains that Mr Amoreau is a charming and delicate person who really believes in his methods of working and has strong ideas of what a good wine should be. Firstly, it must not taste of wood. “Wood taste is a defect! For this reason, no new barrels enter the château. Only tuns and barrels of three to fifteen years of age are used, sanitised with steam. The maturation is followed by bottling without fining or filtration, which is done “in the middle of an old moon.” Also, the wine must be the most natural expression possible of the fruit and terroir that produced it.