Varieties: Cabernet Franc, Merlot
Location: Bordeaux, FR
Alcohol: 14%

This medium-to-full-bodied red has savory red fruit, warm tobacco spice, and cedar notes lay atop soft tannins.

Hand-harvested. Native yeasts carried out all fermentations in tank before being racked into a combination of new and used oak barrels where the wines rest for up to 18 months depending on the cuvée. Very little sulfur is added.

With family roots going back three centuries, the Despagnes know a thing or two about Bordeaux. Nicolas Despagnes is now at the helm of the estate and has worked tirelessly to obtain organic certification and ultimately biodynamic certification by Demeter in 2013. The vineyards, which average 45 years of age, mostly planted to old varieties of Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc, are situated on the gentle slopes of the plateau in Montagne, Saint-Émilion, Pomerol and Libourne on clay-based soils.