Château Lestrille is one of our favourite Bordeaux producers. They have just very successfully launched a wine on the Swedish market, it quickly sold out, so we take the opportunity to congratulate them!
Lestrille is located in the Entre-deux-Mers region and they make red, white, rosé and Bordeaux Clairet. This last category is a speciality of Bordeaux. Bordeaux Clairet is a rosé wine that has quite a strong colour and thus also more body and structure than a normal rosé. You can actually consider it as a light red instead if you wish. It has become incredibly popular, not least in Bordeaux, where they drink it well chilled during the warm summer.
The name Clairet is the same word as the English claret that was once the English name for a red Bordeaux wine. And the explanation for that is that Bordeaux wines in the old days was a good deal lighter in colour than they are today. Lestrille Capmartin Bordeaux Clairet 2014, 5.90 euro from the chateau. More info: lestrille.com.
Join us on a wine tour to Bordeaux and you will have the opportunity to discover many excellent and outstanding wines from this famous wine region!
