Peter & Patricia in the courtyard at Chateau Carbinoux
8:45 AM and the bus picks us up for the tasting. We are traveling with a group from the San Francisco chapter of the Commanderie de Bordeaux, who have organized the trip. What a fabulous job by Kent and Chuck. This is a very old Chateau, in fact, one that Thomas Jefferson visited on the 25th of May in 1787. That Chateau is in an old Benedictine Abbey built in the 13th Century...800 years ago. Owned by the Perrin family, the Chateau makes both a red and a white wine. But it also has an interesting, if small car collection. The vineyard is in the Pessac-Leognan appellation. I think their white wine is better than the red. White wine is 64% Sauvignon Blanc and 35% Semillon. Red wine is 60% Cabernet Sauvignon and 40% Merlot. The vines are planted 7200 plants per hectare which equals 2914 plants per acre. Our most dense planting in Napa is about only 1210 plants per acre. A very big difference that causes a very different type of machinery to work the vineyards. Our tasting consisted of a 2009 White Wine and their 2008 red. The white was very nice the red, undistinguished.
A small collection of old French automobiles
The group with whom we are traveling
The Chai and Chateau Carbinoux
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