Heritage du Cèdre Château du Cèdre 2010

Pascal Verhaeghe has been the driving force behind the Cahors 'Quality Charter', and this is obvious in his wines. The estate was originally created by Charles Verhaeghe on vineyard devastated by the frosts in 1956 in Viré-Sur-Lot. His sons Pascal and Jean-Marc studied winemaking, the former in Burgundy and California, the latter in Bordeaux. Ecological methods eschewing weedkillers and chemical fertilizers, austere pruning, leaf stripping (for greater sun exposure and air circulation), and harvesting at extreme phenolic ripeness yield the superb raw material that create these fabulous wines. The Verhaeghe family aim for soft, rich and ripe wines using gentle extraction, long vattings and understated use of oak.

The refined Malbec grape reaches new heights here at the Chateau du Cèdre. Deep, dark and elegant, Pascal Verhaeghe's wines are flagship wines of the Cahors appellation and reveal the superb terroir of this estate.