At 8:00, fellow journalists and I make our way to the “big house” where Laure’s mother Marie-France lives. Marie-France enters the room, a very energetic woman in a Chanel-looking jacket. Due to its gravel dominated soil it is planted in grape varieties Cabernet Sauvignon (35%), Cabernet Franc (35%), and Merlot(30%). “Welcome!” MORE >>

The Cabernet Sauvignon was perfect with dinner, matching equally well with salmon as it did chicken and pork, and the elegant Sauvignon Blanc was very Graves like (a region in Bordeaux) with incredible richness on the palate. His family has owned vineyard property in France since the late 1600s. More About Bernard Portet. MORE >>

am in the "blind" tasting group with several other top name journalists and together we will taste the whites and the reds of the Grand Cru Classe De Graves "blind.". Location: Pessac-Leognan (Bordeaux region, France). Do you see this beautiful chateau in the picture above? Vineyard surface area: 20 hectares (1ha for the white vine). MORE >>

Of course, the reality is that whatever is causing premox could simply take longer to affect these dry white wines that have been bottled with higher doses of SO2, and I may have the same problems down the road with these wines that I had with white Burgs and wines from the Graves. asked him six questions; he replied with over 10,000 words! MORE >>

When I arrived, I found the Chateau (located in Graves) as gorgeous as one can imagine, with two white swans swimming in a pond. The Graves terroir consists of gravelly soil, layers of alluvial, sandy, and stony soil deposited on a limestone soil by rivers and glaciers during what is known as the Quaternary Period. MORE >>