2019 AOC Bergerac - Bergecrac Rouge
2019 AOC Bergerac - Bergecrac Rouge
A blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Malbec and Merille. Small extraction and a short maceration of about 5-6 days max. It was aged in a tank.
Cuvée: Bergecrac Rouge
Style: Still
Colour: Red
Grapes/Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Malbec and Merille
ABV: 14%
Vintage: 2019
Winemaking: "Bergecrac Rouge is a blend and is made of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Malbec and Merille. There is something new we've added to this vintage: Merille - which is a really local and sort of lost grape variety from Bergerac. It is light and aromatic and there is about 5% of it within this blend. To make this wine we've had a really small extraction and a short maceration, of about 5-6 days max. It was aged in a tank. In general, the Bergecrac range is made for easy drinking!"
Soil: Clay and limestone
A 40-hectare estate, fully organic since 2013. The 8th generation to work at the estate; Vincent Alexis joined his father in 2010 and talked him into bottling their own wines instead of selling them for bulk blending. 25ha are white. Vincent has recently planted lots more traditional grape varieties, Sulphur is only used on bottling for the Bergecrac Blanc and the Monbazillac. Soils are clay on limestone with iron and flint in the Pecharmant vineyards.