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2009 Le Pin, Pomerol, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Merlot
Ready - youthful
Product: 20091014192
2009 Le Pin, Pomerol, Bordeaux

Description

One of the few great success stories on the Right Bank in 2009, Le Pin is a beautiful, intense, supremely elegant wine. Richly concentrated, the power is evident underneath, but the very fine backbone and beautiful, silky tannins just carry the long finish on and on. Jacques Thienpont picked his tiny, one-hectare property early to achieve one of the lowest alcohol levels on this side of the river (13.5%), a fantastic achievement resulting in an astonishingly harmonious wine. It is absolutely delicious.

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Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2009
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Merlot
Body Full Bodied
Producer Le Pin

About this wine

Merlot

The most widely planted grape in Bordeaux and a grape that has been on a relentless expansion drive throughout the world in the last decade. Merlot is adaptable to most soils and is relatively simple to cultivate. It is a vigorous naturally high yielding grape that requires savage pruning - over-cropped Merlot-based wines are dilute and bland. It is also vital to pick at optimum ripeness as Merlot can quickly lose its varietal characteristics if harvested overripe.
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Pomerol

Pomerol

With 150 or so producers and roughly 740 hectares of vineyards, the smallest of Bordeaux's major appellations is home to myriad bijou domaines – many making little more than 1,000 cases per annum. If the topography and architecture of Pomerol are typical, the style of its wines is anything but. The best vineyards are planted on a seam of rich clay extending across the raised plateau of Pomerol from the boundary of St Emilion.
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Le Pin

Le Pin is the most expensive wine in the world. Jacques Thienpont purchased the meagre 1.6 hectares of land for one million francs in 1979. The Thienpoints named their wine Le Pin after a solitary pine tree that shaded the property. By acquiring tiny adjoining plots of land, Jacques has doubled the size of Le Pin to five acres. The south-facing vineyard on a well-drained slope of gravel and sand is planted with Merlot (about 92%), and a small amount of Cabernet Franc.
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