Château Couhins-Lurton blanc 2010

Bettane & Desseauve

About the wine:

Lovely white fruit aromas, smoky, mineral and lemony notes, round, fruity, tender, beautifully crafted, aromatic and fresh on the palate.

About the domain :

The cru has been restructured and the château brilliantly renovated by André Lurton, who along with La Louvière has made it his flagship property in the Graves. Couhins produces a white wine of remarkable finesse, very typical of Sauvignon, but which takes on the spicy, mineral notes typical of the terroir as it ages. With younger vines, the red is gradually gaining in dimension.

Guide Hachette des vins

About the wine:

This cru has won three "Coup de Coeur" awards for its white wines (most recently for the 2008). Once again, it justifies its ranking in this color with this pure Sauvignon wine that creates a springtime atmosphere with its scents of hawthorn, seringa and white peach, accompanied by a lovely lemony note. Rich and long, this 2010 also displays a lovely freshness that makes it ideal as an aperitif or with fine seafood such as scallops and sole fillets.

RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France

About the domain :

It took no less than forty years for the tenacious André Lurton to succeed, in 1992, in rebuilding the entire estate. Only classified as white, the production in this color, monitored by oenologists Denis Dubourdieu and Valérie Lavigne, is entirely devoted to Sauvignon, with crystalline expressions of this grape variety. In its youth, the wine may seem to express more the primary qualities of Sauvignon than those of its terroir, but it often acquires surprising complexity with age, as our tasting of ten-year-old vintages has already shown. On the red side, Merlot dominates in a vineyard that is beginning to look a little older, but which for a long time produced fairly light wines. With the arrival of Michel Rolland and his team, things have been moving in the right direction since 2003 for the reds! A clear search for denser, silkier and more seductive wines is underway. In 2014 and 2015, a small volume of red wine benefited from full vinification in 30 barrels and 4 9 hectoliter foudres. And initiatives are set to accelerate with the arrival in 2015 of Christine Lurton at the helm of the Pessac-Léognan crus owned by André Lurton, the man with 600 hectares of vines - of which Crédit Agricole is a major shareholder.

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