Chateau de Sales

Specification

Producer

Chateau de Sales

Region

Bordeaux

Where

Pomerol, Bordeaux

Classification

Pomerol AOC

Grapes

Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon

Vintage

2001

Case

75cl

Held at

Wine Tunnels, London City Bond (in bond)

Code

CHASAL011X75

About this wine

Château de Sales is a Merlot-led Pomerol with some Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon. It is medium-bodied and supple, with red and dark fruit, earthy notes and soft tannins, in a more restrained style than the wines of the Pomerol plateau. It drinks well after five to eight years and keeps for fifteen years or more.

About Chateau de Sales

Château de Sales is the largest estate in Pomerol and one of the few with a true château, set in parkland in the north-west of the appellation. It has remained in the hands of the same family, by descent, since the sixteenth century, which makes it one of the longest family ownerships in Bordeaux.

The vineyard lies on gravel and sand and is planted mainly with Merlot, with Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon. De Sales makes a lighter, more classically proportioned Pomerol than the plateau estates and is valued for its consistency. The second wine is Chantalouette.