Chateau De Sales 1990
The 1990 Château de Sales is a Pomerol red wine from Bordeaux, produced by Château de Sales. Its blend brings together 72% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 13% Cabernet Franc. The Wine Advocate awards it 89/100 and describes a rich, mature, medium-bodied wine, driven by supple fruit and a long finish, with notes of leather, spice, caramel, and berries. The indicated drinking window extends from 1993 to 2005.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 72% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13% Cabernet Franc
Château De Sales
Château de Sales is a wine estate situated in Libourne, in the north-west of the Pomerol appellation. Its 47.6-hectare vineyard, planted mainly with Merlot, is the largest in the appellation. The estate has remained in the same family line since its acquisition by the Sauvanelle family in the 16th century; it is now owned by the Lambert heirs.
- Owner
- Les héritiers Lambert, via la SAS Château de Sales
- Maître de chais
- Frédéric Laborde
- Surface (ha)
- 47.60 ha
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- 200 000 bouteilles/an
Histoire du domaine
The estate was acquired by the Sauvanelle family in 1578, on land then held by the monks of Saint-Émilion. The Sauvanelle brothers developed the estate and, from 1602, began exporting white and red wines to Spain. The château was built on the estate in 1643, before undergoing alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1735, Jeanne Magdeleine de Sauvanelle brought the estate as her dowry upon her marriage to Monsieur Desaigues. During the French Revolution, the estate was seized and the château ransacked, but Gabrielle Desaigues subsequently managed to reclaim the property, save for three hectares. The estate passed to Alexandre de Laage in the mid-19th century. In 1949, it came into the Lambert family through the marriage of Marguerite de Folin to Henri de Lambert. Henri de Lambert modernised the estate, increasing the area under vine from 28 to 47.6 hectares, and chaired the Pomerol Wine Growers’ Association from 1969 to 1990. His son Bruno de Lambert managed the estate from 1982 to 2017. Since 2017, the fourteen cousins who are co-owners have resumed family management; Nicolas de Lambert now chairs the company and Marie-Laure Latorre has been its managing director since September 2025.
