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Chateau Valandraud is located in the Saint-Emilion region on the right bank of Bordeaux, France. It is the pioneer winery of Bordeaux's famous Garage Wine. The wine produced by this winery is Saint-Emilion. One of the most expensive wines in the Rhône region.
The achievements of the winery are inseparable from the passion of a couple for the wine business: Jean-Luc Thunevin and Murielle Andraud. This well-known couple in the wine industry started by selling wine in the Saint-Emilion region. After their success in business, they decided to open up a vineyard of their own and make their own wine. So, in 1989, the couple bought a vineyard covering only 0.6 hectares near Chateau Pavie Macquin and Chateau La Clotte in Saint-Emilion. The winery was named after the place name Vallon de Fongaban and the family name of the hostess Andro. In this way, Valanzo Winery was born. After that, Jean-Luc Tuwen and Muriel Andreu came one after another.
The vineyard area owned by the winery has reached 8.88 hectares. The vineyards of the winery have superior terroir. The soil types in the vineyard are mainly limestone and clay. The red grape planting includes 65% Merlot and 25% Cabernet Franc. Cabernet Franc), 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Malbec and 1% Carmenere. The white grapes planted are mainly Sauvignon Gris and Sauvignon Blanc. ) and Semillon. To this day, the winery has always adhered to high requirements for grape quality and manually selected wine grapes according to extremely strict standards. Adhering to the concept of "preferring quality to quality, we strictly control the source and select grapes with ideal maturity to enter the winemaking process."
In terms of brewing, the winery combines tradition with modern technology. The grapes are harvested by hand when they reach their maximum ripeness and undergo a first selection in the vineyard, followed by an extremely strict second selection in the winery. The selected grapes will undergo alcoholic fermentation in different containers (stainless steel tanks, concrete tanks and oak barrels), followed by three weeks of maceration. During the maceration, the skins will be manually trampled to fully extract color, tannins and Flavor substances. The wine is then put into oak barrels for malolactic fermentation. Then, the wine will be matured in French oak barrels with a ratio of 100% new barrels for 18-30 months. For this reason, the winery spends huge sums of money to replace expensive new oak barrels every year. Finally, the wine is bottled without filtration and clarification.
When the authoritative wine critic Robert Parker tasted wine blindly in 1995, he rated the winery better than the Bordeaux wine king Petrus! At the Christie's en primeur auction in London, the price of the 1995 Valandraud was actually higher than that of Chateau among the five major wineries. Mouton Rothschild and Chateau Valandraud became famous as a result, and became one of the most expensive wines in the Saint-Emilion region. Robert Parker also included this winery in his book "The Greatest Winery in the World", and it has a glorious history!
Chateau Valandraud was also included in the book "Rare and Rare Wines" as one of the top 100 wines in the world. To this day, founder Jean-Luc Thunevin still adheres to his insistence on quality and adheres to the concept of "don't let the bad ones go". With excellence, courage and originality, he led a "garage wine" trend and shocked the entire wine world. In 2012, his outstanding performance made Chateau Valandraud become Saint-Emilion's Class B Grand Cru Classé, setting an extremely rare and astonishing promotion speed in the Saint-Emilion region! When Robert Parker re-rated the 1993 vintage, Chateau Valandraud once again received the highest rating in the entire Bordeaux region!