Château de Reignac 2016 Bottle (75cl)
The 2016 Château de Reignac is a Bordeaux white wine produced by Château de Reignac, owned by Yves and Stéphanie Vatelot. It blends Sauvignon Blanc, Sauvignon Gris, and Sémillon. James Suckling awards it 90-91/100 and Jancis Robinson 16.5/20. Critics describe a rich and fragrant style, driven by a fine acidity and a finish hinting at dried apple. Jancis Robinson suggests a drinking window from 2017 to 2020.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Red
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Bordeaux
- Producteur / Domaine
- Château de Reignac
- Millésime
- 2016
Château de Reignac
Located in Saint-Loubès, Château de Reignac farms 75 hectares of vines on a 145-hectare estate, featuring clay-limestone and clay-gravel terroirs. Owned by the Vatelot family since 1990, it primarily produces red Bordeaux Supérieur as well as a Bordeaux blanc. Vinification is overseen by cellar master Olivier Prevot, with Michel Rolland acting as consulting oenologist.
- Owner
- Yves et Stéphanie Vatelot (famille Vatelot)
- Maître de chais
- Olivier Prevot
- Surface (ha)
- 75.00 ha
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- 380000
Histoire du domaine
The current château was built in the 16th century by the lord Baude de Peyron on the remains of a former medieval fortress. Remodeled in the 18th and 19th centuries, the property notably gained a greenhouse designed by Gustave Eiffel. Yves and Stéphanie Vatelot purchased the estate on April 1, 1990, and initiated the renovation of the château and cellars. A lake designed notably to protect the vineyard against frost was created in 1993, followed by the birth of the Grand Vin de Reignac cuvée in 1996. The 16th-century dovecote was restored in 1998 and transformed into a tasting tower. In 2002, Balthvs appeared, a Merlot cuvée vinified in barrels according to a method patented by Yves Vatelot, a process later applied to Reignac. The estate continued its modernization with a new storage cellar in 2012 and the renovation of the vat room in 2018, featuring six small inverted truncated-cone vats to refine parcel-by-parcel vinification.
