CHATEAU DE LAMARQUE

Vintage:    Haut-Médoc

Classification:            Bourgeois Supérieur (1932 & 2003)
Grand Bourgeois (1966 & 1977)

Membership :            Académie des Vins de Bordeaux (1982)
Union des Grands Crus du Médoc (1983)
Alliance des Crus Bourgeois (2003)

Soil Type:            Garonnaise quaternery gravel
Mindel I – II and Riss I)
(Gravel 85%.  Chalk -clay  5%.  Other 5%

Surface Area:            Approximately 35 hectares

Production:            180.000 bottles  1st Wine : Château de Lamarque
50.000 bottles  2nd Wine : D  de Lamarque

Varieties:            45 % Cabernet Sauvignon
15 % Cabernet Franc
35 % Merlot
5 % Petit Verdot

Pruning system:        Double curtain (guyot), with three buds per cane

Average vine age:        40 years
Viticulture:                               – Soil improvement and fertilisation : Méthode Cousinié
«  Plus d’équilibre nutritionnel des vignes pour moins de traitements » a more nutritive balance in the plants for less spraying
- Protection : reasonable combating.
- Pruning and debudding
- Green harvest
1. Deflowering in May (Merlot & Petit Verdot)
2. Unripe bunches in July (Cabernet Franc & Sauvignon)
3. Mid-veraison to mid-August (Cabernet Sauvignon)
-  Eastern leaf trim at the beginning of July and Western leaf trim at the beginning of August

Vineyard creation:        In existence since the XVth century

Oenologists :            Jacques & Eric BOISSENOT