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What are the specificities of Château Chasse-Spleen?
The estate that we know today as Chasse Spleen was much larger in the past and the wine was marketed under the name of
According to a tenacious legend, Baudelaire would have named this wine whose 35 year old vines are planted in gravelly soil. This cru became fashionable without its former owner - Bernadette Villars - ever having accepted the slightest concession. This is how Chasse-Spleen, like the greatest, refrained from filtering its wines.
Today managed by Claire Villars with excellence, the elaboration of the Cru Bourgeois is a family story. The Merlaut family, followed by their descendants, has owned the estate since 1976. And each generation has contributed to raising the quality of the wine with a view to making it as precise as possible.
The estate offers a wine for tasting made from different grape varieties:
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Very popular among wine lovers, half of which is matured in new barrels, it is one of these wines that is good to have in the cellar. A "bourgeois" that some specialists would classify as a 5ème or even 4ème cru.
In order to best express its terroir, the property produces two Second wines, L'Ermitage de Chasse-Spleen and L'Oratoire de Chasse-Spleen.
Best Chasse-Spleen vintages: 1989, 2014, 2010, 2003, 2009
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