Vieux Château Champs de Mars 'Johanna' Castillon-Côtes-De-Bordeaux, 2000

Vieux Château Champs de Mars 'Johanna' Castillon-Côtes-De-Bordeaux, 2000

Regular price $58.00

This wine is made of 80% Merlot, and 20% Cabernet Franc. From Castillon-Côtes-de-Bordeaux, this treasure from our Cellar shows the elegance of mature Right Bank Bordeaux. With over two decades of age, it opens with aromas of dried plum, blackcurrant, cedar, and tobacco accented by earthy notes of forest floor and leather. The palate is silky and balanced, with softened tannins and a lingering finish of spice and savory fruit. Perfect alongside roast lamb with rosemary, duck confit, or a wild mushroom risotto.

  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Medium Tannins
  • Organic
  • Biodynamic
  • Medium Acid

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PAIRS well WITH

  • Red Meat
  • Poultry
  • Grilled Vegetables

Details

From our Importer: Sometimes a winegrower is too far ahead of their time to be properly appreciated during their career. Régis Moro, along with his wife Therèse and son Sébastien, founded Vieux Château Champs de Mars in the early 1980s, in the rolling hills of the Castillon-Côtes de Bordeaux appellation, mere kilometers from the Amoreau family’s legendary Château Le Puy. Locale is not all Moro shared with Le Puy, however: Régis took a similarly rigorous approach in his vineyards, working organically from the outset and gradually incorporating biodynamic treatments; he also adopted low-intervention cellar work, favoring spontaneous fermentations, eschewing temperature control and new oak, and bottling very gently and naturally.

Moro’s focus on and fermentation over flashiness, however, put him out of step with his era, a time during which the rise of powerful critics steered Bordeaux well off-course from traditional practices and

into the realm of big extraction, big oak, and big impact. While gaining recognition in certain circles—even garnering “Winemaker of the Year” in the influential French publication Le Point in the early 2000s—Régis’ project never quite took off in the way he hoped (or, we think, deserved), and in 2022 he sold his vineyards and winery to the Amoreau family, longtime friends and supporters.

Along with the acreage and the cellar, the Amoreaus were thrilled to obtain a treasure trove of older vintages which had lain undisturbed since they were bottled. We first began introducing these relics to the US market two years ago with Moro’s adjacent Closerie du Pelan, a Cabernet-Sauvignon-dominant wine which won immediate acclaim among our clientele for its honest, pure, and gusty expressions of this less-appreciated corner of the Bordeaux region.

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