Suduiraut Dry White 2020 - Château Suduiraut - Bordeaux 4df5d4d9d819b397555d03cedf085f48

Suduiraut Dry White 2020 - Château Suduiraut - Bordeaux 4df5d4d9d819b397555d03cedf085f48

Vintage conditions The fall and winter of 2019-2020 were very rainy. 4df5d4d9d819b397555d03cedf085f48 Cumulative rainfall reached 519 mm in March, more than half of the annual average. 4df5d4d9d819b397555d03cedf085f48 The sweetness associated with it led to budburst of the vine more than two weeks in advance. 4df5d4d9d819b397555d03cedf085f48 This advance continued, even with a clear refresh at the end of the month and with a day of frost on March 27. 4df5d4d9d819b397555d03cedf085f48 The rest of the season remained fairly mild and rainy, requiring increased vigilance against mildew. 4df5d4d9d819b397555d03cedf085f48 Flowering, although in advance, took place in mixed weather, causing coulure. 4df5d4d9d819b397555d03cedf085f48 The impact was very heterogeneous depending on the terroirs, the precocity of the plot and the age of the vines. 4df5d4d9d819b397555d03cedf085f48 The good weather returned in July and the climate became very dry and above all very hot. 4df5d4d9d819b397555d03cedf085f48 The water reserves enabled the vines to withstand these various episodes of heat waves well and a few rains in mid-August restarted the ripening of the grapes. 4df5d4d9d819b397555d03cedf085f48 The end of maturation ended ten days in advance under very favorable weather conditions: hot days and cool nights which preserved the aromatic capital. 4df5d4d9d819b397555d03cedf085f48 The oldest plots of Blanc Sec de Suduiraut were harvested on August 25th. 4df5d4d9d819b397555d03cedf085f48 We picked, as in recent years, both Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon for these batches to ferment together. 4df5d4d9d819b397555d03cedf085f48