CHÂTEAU LA BONNELLE 2016

Château La Bonnelle 2016

A new wine cellar is built, the old barrel cellars renovated. A powerful, delicate and balanced wine where the bouquet-fruit-tannin alliance leads to subtlety.

VARIETIES: 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, aged over 40 years
REGION: Castillon côtes de Bordeaux
AGEING: 18 months in French oak barrels, renewed in thirds every year. Part of the wood in our barrels comes from our forestry operations in Dordogne
GUARDING POTENTIAL: 10 years ±
SERVE: Serve at 16ºC – 18ºC

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Château La Bonnelle | of | Vignobles Sulzer

Vineyard created in the middle of the 19th century in the SAINT EMILION appellation, Château LA BONNELLE belonged to our grandmother. Taken over in 1963 by François SULZER our father, it only had 6 hectares of Merlot and Cabernet Franc vinified in a cooperative.

In 1990, Olivier SULZER decided to begin his career as a winemaker there. The vineyard is expanded to reach 12.60 ha in the commune of Saint Pey D’Armens to the east of Saint Emilion.