CHATEAU DE LAMARQUE

The vine varieties are disributed in the traditional way to ensure the soils, varieties and rootstock are ideally matched. This combination of soil-variety-rootstock is of the utmost importance.

• Cabernet-Sauvignon: firm wines with lots of structure, brilliant colour and delicate ageing capacities.
Cabernet-Franc: produces wines that are lighter in colour, but intense with a rich bouquet.

• Merlot: less suited for ageing, but gives roundness and flesh to the structure and lots of aromas.

• Petit-Verdot: ripens later but contributes body, colour and rich tannins.

The proportions of the vine varieties on the estate, however, are not necessarily reproduced in the final blend of the wine for each vintage.
For example, Merlot vines represent 42% of the vineyard, but no more than 25 to 30% in the blend of our main wine: Château de Lamarque. The proportion, however, is greater in our second wine: D de Lamarque, where it is blended with grapes from younger Cabernet vines.