Clos L'Eglise Merlot, France
With its 14 hectares was considered to be a very big domain for Pomerol, ahead of about a dozen great wines which formed – and still form –the heart of Pomerol.
It is the soil that gives a great wine its personality and it is the efforts of Sylviane Garcin-Cathiard that have developed it fully.
She took over the property in January 1997, and using her experience at Château Haut-Bergey in Pessac-Léognan, she completely reorganized the chai.
The soil is composed of clay and gravel, with iron deposits, which gives Pomerol its distinctive character.
Situated on the slope of a hill, most of the vineyard stretches to the south-west of the building, at the break of the famous Pomerol plateau.k
It is the soil that gives a great wine its personality and it is the efforts of Sylviane Garcin-Cathiard that have developed it fully.
She took over the property in January 1997, and using her experience at Château Haut-Bergey in Pessac-Léognan, she completely reorganized the chai.
The soil is composed of clay and gravel, with iron deposits, which gives Pomerol its distinctive character.
Situated on the slope of a hill, most of the vineyard stretches to the south-west of the building, at the break of the famous Pomerol plateau.k