Château Cos d’Estournel, 2017 Update: Carving up a Vineyard
These new analyses have facilitated a new division of the vineyard into 19 different soil types, although some types are similar enough to be considered as one. Thus with this very mild simplification of the data Aymeric and Dominique have categorised their vineyard into ten different soil ‘groups’. These new ‘soil parcels’ are strewn across the three main vineyards zones at Château Cos d’Estournel.
“Of course, having this knowledge is all well and good, but once we have it we need to act on it” says Aymeric. And that is exactly what he and his team have done. The work led to further subdivision of the vineyard, going way beyond these three basic divisions, and even pre-existing divisions into separate parcels. Take a walk through the vineyards of Château Cos d’Estournel today and you will see daubs of fluorescent orange paint on groups or rows of vines (pictured), delineating important changes in soil types that lie below.
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