Château Baret 2022

The red grapes harvest is also amongst the earliest. It enables to harvest every year, including during late and difficult years, fully matured grapes. Regular grape tastings is used to determine the harvest date and to form homogeneous vinification vats

Terroir : The combination of great gravelly sandy soils and classic gravelly clay soils, characteristic of the left bank of Bordeaux, favours the production of great red wines. The coolest clay-limestone and clay-gravel soils, are reserved for whites. They are less present in the vineyard, which explains the lower proportion of white wine production.

Winemaking : very traditional. The grapes are de-stemmed and gently crushed before going into the vats. Extraction is gentle during alcoholic fermentation, post-fermentation maceration is generally long, between three weeks and a month in total. The wine is aged in oak barrels for about 12 months and the percentage of new barrels used is adjusted every year. In order to ensure good stability once in bottles, the wine is clarified and filtered.

The wine is bottled between eighteen months and two years following the harvest.