Wine "Chateau Couhins" Rouge, Pessac-Leognan AOC, 2009
Reviews of purchase "Chateau Couhins" Rouge, Pessac-Leognan AOC, 2009
Tasting Notes
Moderate wine garnet color with purple highlights.
The taste of wine is pleasant, rounded, with a smooth texture, notes of raspberry and cedar, soft tannins and an elegant finish.
Wine seduces refined aroma, which harmoniously interwoven notes of ripe fruit, raspberry, cedar and vanilla.
Wine is recommended to use with meat, poultry with cream sauce, game, mushroom and cheese snacks.
Interesting Facts
Red wine Chateau Couhins has a delicious taste and aroma, it blends in well with various dishes of meat, mushrooms, poultry and cheeses. For the manufacture of wine blend used four grape varieties - Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. Harvesting is done by hand in small boxes. Berries are double sorting and cooling, and then crushed. Fermentation at controlled temperature 25-28 ° C lasts 26-30 days. Malolactic fermentation takes place in stainless steel tanks and oak barrels. Wine is aged 12 months in French oak barrels, 40% of them are new. Annually produces 40,000 bottles of wine Chateau Kuen.
Producer's description
For a quarter century, Institute INRA successfully implemented wine research and the results are not long in coming - Wine Chateau Couhins demonstrate strong character and excellent balance.