
The nose reveals notes of honey, dried fruit, walnuts and slight notes of hazelnuts associated with a very fine note of acacia in the background. The palate is fresh, fruity, well-balanced, mineral, quite rich and offers a nice fresh/acid frame that leads the tasting. In the mouth it expresses notes of peach in syrup, candied citrus (mandarin, lemon) and slight notes of caramel associated with a hint of walnuts.
Harvest from 30 september to 31 october 2016
Château d’Arche Lafaurie is the premium wine of Château d’Arche. The most beautiful grapes are minutely selected in the best 2 hectares of the estate to produce this micro-cuvée. The wine is complex and powerful with a nice harmony between sugar and aromatic pallet. Chateau d’Arche Lafaurie’s wine are full bodied with a good length on the palate.
About the Vineyard
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Type of soil80% gravels, 20% clay-limestone
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Production area2 hectares of Château d’Arche
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Average age of the vineyard40 years old
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Planting density1,5m x 1m (6600 vine plants by ha)
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Harvestby hand with 3 to 5 successive passes
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CertificationHVE3 (High Environmental Value) / ISO14001. Substainable agriculture : in transition for a 2024 certification
The vintage
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Blend100% Semillon
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Alcohol (in % vol.)13,5
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Yield8 hl/hectare
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Wine making processin new oak barrels
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Ageing24-36 months in new oak barrels
Our creations
“A” of Château d’Arche is a Bordeaux appellation rosé wine produced by Château d’Arche, Grand cru classé de Sauternes in 1855. It is made from the direct pressing of 50% Merlot and 50% Cabernet Sauvignon planted on a small, late-slope terroir of Graves, on a silty-gravelly soil with astery-limestone at the top. Fermented in stainless steel vats and then partially matured in Sauternes barrels at Château d’Arche, this dry, fresh and tangy rosé has unique aromatic characteristics.
Recognized for its exceptional elegance and equality by the most famous wine critics in the world, the great wine of Château d´Arche is like its terroir : rare, timeless and vibrant.
Second wine of Château d’Arche. This wine makes the difference with its resolutely moderne Bottle.
This fresh and acid wine is characterized by its lightness, liveliness and floral and fruity aromas. The second wine of Château d’Arche, with undeniable and immediate charm, demonstrated all the pleasure and elegance of the great wine.
“A” of Château d’Arche is a Bordeaux appellation dry wine produced by Château d’Arche, Grand cru classé de Sauternes in 1855. Blended from 85% Semillon, the emblematic grape variety of Sauternes, and 15% Sauvignon, hand-picked, this wine reflects all the typicity of its terroir. Harvested on the verge of botrytisation, these grapes offer an exceptional aromatic base that is not unlike the notes of our great Sauternes. Its maturing on fine lees half in vats and half in barrels, 20% of which are new and 30% in Sauternes wine barrels, will only reinforce its identity and aromatic power.
This elegant and silky wine, aged in barrels, expresses on the palate blackcurrant and cherry aromas typical of Merlot.
Created by the Château d’Arche team in 2020. This wine is the tasty meeting of a traditional method and a dosage liqueur based on Sauternes from Château d’Arche which gives this wine a unique and delicate signature.