Château Tour des Termes: Vineyards
The cellars of Château Tour des Termes are located on the southern outskirts of St-Corbian, inland of St-Estèphe. A rather modern residence sits looking out towards the road from the centre of a small park dotted with trees and shrubs. Behind this, down a side street, looking more like a garage than a cuverie, lie the long and narrow cellars.
The vineyards of Château Tour des Termes are therefore located on the periphery of St-Corbian’s gravel hill, also home to Château Beau-Site and Château Le Boscq. There are 35 hectares all told, the vineyard having expanded from the 15 hectares Christophe Anney worked with. A slice of the vineyard touches the Terrace 3 gravel which rises up beneath the hamlet of St-Corbian and the aforementioned châteaux; other parts feature more clay, with deeper limestone. In truth this is not unusual in parts of St Estèphe; despite the Médoc’s reputation for gravel, there being many parts of this appellation which are characterised by clay soils settled over the commune’s Calcaire de St Estèphe.
Of the 35 hectares, these are dominated (unusually, for the commune) by Merlot, at 60% of the vineyard, with 30% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% each Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot.
