Chateau Grand Barrail Lamarzelle Figeac - Saint Emilion Grand Cru - 2012
This year the disturbed weather demanded great vigilance. Work in the vineyard had to take into account the difficult conditions of the vintage: slashing and spalling to limit vegetative development to the benefit of cluster feeding, elimination of clusters with heterogeneous maturity. Everything has been done to preserve the balance and to promote the maturation of the grapes. Concerns in the first half of the season faded with the return of a dry, sunny August weather. These harvests are the later ones that the field has known: we waited as late as possible, and harvested in a very grouped time.