Château Faugères

 



CHÂTEAU FAUGÈRES : PROFILE OF THE ESTATE

Owner : SARL Château Faugères

Appellation : Saint-Emilion Grand Cru

Surface area : 37 hectares

Soil : limestone plateau (asteria limestone subsoil) dating back to the upper Oligocene; limestone and clay slope (limestone soil on clay-limestone molasse) dating back to the upper Eocene and Oligocene.

Grape varieties : 85 % Merlot, 10 % Cabernet Franc, 5 % Cabernet Sauvignon

Average age of vines : 35 years

Planting density : 6,000 vinestocks/hectare

Cultivation and harvesting : "guyot double" pruning, plowing and inter-row grassing, debudding, leaf-stripping and thinning by hand, manual harvesting using trays, sorting tables, with one for optical sorting.

Respecting the environment : Natural sustainable viticulture (integrated farming). ISO 14001 environmental certification obtained in 2009.

Vinification : Vats filled by gravity, cold prefermentary maceration, temperature-controlled wooden conical vats, 50% of the malolactic fermentation in new barrels, slow vatting over a period of three weeks.

Consultant oenologist : Michel Rolland

Maturing : 50% in new French oak barrels, 50% in one wine barrels, for 14 months.

Average production : 65,000 bottles (first wine)

Second wine : Haut Faugères