David Launay was the Commercial Director at Château Gruaud-Larose in St.Julien, Bordeaux and has extensive experience helping in the cellar and in the vines. He explains that cabernet Sauvignon brings the finesse and the "spine" to Gruaud-Larose while the Merlot brings the power.
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Video Text: The Cabernet Sauvignon is... Gruaud-Larose is known to be the wine of Kings and the king of wine but the Cabernet Sauvignon is the king of Gruaud-Larose. It's the spine of the wine. At the Chateau we have 61% of Cabernet Sauvignon in the vineyard because of soil again. It's mostly you know to have the best expression of Cabernet Sauvignon it has to be on gravelly soil, and very poor soil and and then as I was telling you it's the spine. So it's the structure of the of the wine, bringing lots of tannin in the wine, but also bringing the acidity as well. So you have the... always we are searching for the best maturity for the Cabernet, you know to be ripe and I think when you have a very ripe Cabernet Sauvignon when you miss one for me is probably the best cep age (grape variety) on earth but that's the challenge for us it's always difficult it's not so easy to get to this full maturity of Cabernet Sauvignon in Bordeaux. But otherwise it's a it's bringing the it's bringing the finest in the wine whereas the Merlot bring the the power the Merlot... The Cabernet Sauvignon is bringing the the finesse, the length in in the wine. That's why again you're going back to the definition of Saint-Julien; the finesse and the power. But it also, I always like to say that Gruaud-Larose...Gruaud is the power so the Merlot. Larose is the finesse then the Cabernet Sauvignon. So we know so you have a very good definition of what is Saint-Julien through the name of Gruaud-Larose.
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