• Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot
• Certified Organic
    
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A beautiful wine from a hallmark vintage with a great story. Closerie du Pelan began as a project by French painter Régis Moro, who purchased the estate in 1984, then called Vieux Château Champs de Mars. Returning to his roots he farmed organically, achieving organic certification in 2008 and biodynamic certification in 2013. While Moro’s star rose gradually on the home front—he was named “Winemaker of the Year” by the French newspaper Le Point in the early 2000s—large-scale commercial success eluded him. By the late-2010s, the winery was in mild disrepair, and the vineyards, still beautifully tended, were rife with missing vines, yielding a mere 15-20 hectoliters per hectare as a result. The Amoreau family, owners of neighboring Chateau Le Puy saw an opportunity to help an old friend and to produce wine from a different terroir. They purchased the property in 2022 only to find a massive haul of back vinrtages (2015 to 1999) hiding in the cellar with a large supply of the hallmark 2010 vintage, regarded as one of the great vintages of this century. 

This is a Cabernet Sauvignon dominant blend with Merlot and Petit Verdot that is showing great. Dried fruits, tobacco and forest floor. Dark and dense with a nice mineral backbone.