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Cabernet Franc
Cabernet Franc is widely planted in Bordeaux and is the most important black grape grown in the Loire. In the Médoc it may constitute up to 15% of a typical vineyard - it is always blended with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot and is used to add bouquet and complexity to the wines. It is more widely used in St.Emilion where it adapts well to the cooler and moister clay soils - Cheval Blanc is the most famous Cabernet Franc wine in the world, with the final blend consisting of up to 65% of the grape.
Cabernet Franc thrives in the Loire where the cooler growing conditions serve to accentuate the grape's herbaceous, grassy, lead pencil aromas. The best wines come from the tuffeaux limestone slopes of Chinon and Bourgeil where growers such as Jacky Blot produce intense well-structured wines that possess excellent cellaring potential.
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The Gran Cabernet Franc is famed at 1000 metres in the Lujan de Cayo enclave of Mendoza. After fermentation in small stainless steel vats, the wine maturation lasts for 18 months and takes pace in new French barrels. The 2009 is aromatically seductive with hints of laurel and eucalypt behind the ripe black fruit; the palate is winsome, rounded but long, its elegance recalling Old World examples for this temperamental but ultimately rewarding variety.
(Simon Field MW, BBR Buyer)
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