{"id":504151,"date":"2018-02-22T09:26:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T08:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/2018\/02\/22\/chevalier-du-chateau-lagrezette-2016-a-beautiful-elegance\/"},"modified":"2018-02-22T09:26:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T08:26:39","slug":"chevalier-du-chateau-lagrezette-2016-a-beautiful-elegance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2018\/02\/22\/chevalier-du-chateau-lagrezette-2016-a-beautiful-elegance\/","title":{"rendered":"Chevalier du Ch\u00e2teau Lagr\u00e9zette 2016: a beautiful elegance!"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Chevalier du Ch\u00e2teau Lagr\u00e9zette comes from the Caillac vineyard, located on the third terraces of the Lot with a predominantly gravel-clay soil. With warm summers and an Indian summer, the Terroir of Caillac presents the ideal conditions for a perfect ripening of the king grape variety, the Malbec. It allows to keep a nice freshness to the wines.<\/h5>\n

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For the 2016 vintage, weather conditions were marked by two distinct and opposite periods:
\n– The first period, with a very cool spring, a low average temperature and numerous rains that led to a late start in vegetation.
\n– The second period, with a sunny and warm summer but cool nights, allowed a slow maturation of the grapes while preserving their aromatic potential and their acidity.<\/h5>\n
For 2016, production was very low but it remains one of the best vintages ever produced since 2011. The 2016 Ch\u00e2teau Lagr\u00e9zette Chevalier is the result of a blend of 77% Malbec and 23% Merlot. The vines are about 25 years old. After a manual harvest the grapes are sorted, the cold maceration lasts 4 to 7 days, two daily punchings are made to extract the color, the fat and the fruit. The alcoholic fermentation starts with the punching of the cap. A final maceration completes the vinification process before being put into barrels. The wine is then aged for a minimum of 12 months in oak barrels (10% new wood, 50% one-wine barrels and 40% two-wine barrels) The 2016 Ch\u00e2teau Lagr\u00e9zette Chevalier reveals a dark red color.<\/h5>\n
The powerful nose reveals floral notes (violet) as well as aromas of very ripe red fruits like cherry, fig and blackberry. In the mouth, the wine has a supple attack, on the fruit, with a great structure and a beautiful elegance. This wine is characterized by its balance with an ample, powerful but velvety mouth and with a very beautiful length.<\/h5>\n
The 2016 Ch\u00e2teau Lagr\u00e9zette Chevalier is on sale for an average price of \u20ac17.
\nChevalier du Ch\u00e2teau Lagr\u00e9zette 2016 is on sale in Lagr\u00e9zette boutiques and at Carrefour.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chevalier du Ch\u00e2teau Lagr\u00e9zette comes from the Caillac vineyard, located on the third terraces of the Lot with a predominantly gravel-clay soil. With warm summers and an Indian summer,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":504155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wines-and-spirits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}