Château Villemaurine: Tasting & Drinking
Château Villemaurine has a long and venerable history, viticulture having had a place here, a few metres walk from the ancient town of St Emilion, for many centuries. The terroir is also to be envied, the vines sending their roots down into sandy-silty or clay-rich soils into deeper Calcaire à Astéries. Many vignerons down on the sandy plain around Vignonet, for example, would sacrifice their eye teeth and their left arm for a vineyard with this combination of soils and bedrock.
What really defines the wines here at Château Villemaurine, however, is the approach in the cellars. This is St Emilion in a very modern style, inky black in the glass, the fruit profile sweet, warm and occasionally feeling a little sun-baked and smudged in its definition. It has even veered towards a little chocolate-cake richness, a characteristic sometimes seen in the wines of one of its near neighbours, Château La Couspaude, which also tend toward a rich, modern, extracted, sur-mature style.
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