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Château Liversan,
Saint-Saveur, AC Haut-Médoc
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The
Château Liversan was bought
in 1995 by the Lapalu family. They also own four or five other châteaux in the
Médoc. The château and cellars have been beautifully restored. The Domaines
Lapalu now includes, apart from Liversan, the châteaux Patache d’Aux, Lacombe
Noaillac, Lieujean, Le Bosq, Fonpiqueyre, Lagrave, Les Rives de Gravelongue, Les
Traverses la Franque, Le Borderon, and Larrivaux.
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| The
Château Liversan |
Autumn
colours on the vines |
Some left over grapes starting to
rot |
Autumn leave |
The grapes matured very unevenly in
2003 so some grape bunches were left at the harvest because they were
not ripe. Now, a few weeks later, they are ripe |
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| It can be fun working with wine. The
Lapalu export manager, Pierre Courdurie, has a laugh |
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M. Courdurie |
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The Maitre de Chai at Liversan
- Bruno Blanc |
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The inside of an
old-fashioned vertical press. At the
bottom: the 'cake' of grape skins, pips and what is left after pressing |
After fermentation in vat: You first draw off the
self run juice. Then you need to take out the solids that remain in the
tank |
You rake them out with what look as a garden tool,
into a screw lift |
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| A closer look. There's still some
free run juice dripping |
The screw lift takes the slush on
the right and transports it up to the left. Behind you can see the cage
of the vertical press, into which the slush is dumped |
This is the hydraulic machine that
does the pressing |
Another view of the press container.
Even if the method (vertical pressing) is old-fashioned, the press is
almost brand new |
The cuverie, with stainless steel
fermentation tanks as well as smaller plastic containers on the left |
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| Barrels for wood ageing |
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You see more and more chateaux
experimenting with non-French oak. Here it is American oak from a French
cooperage (tonnellerie) |
And this is from an American
cooperage |
More
barrels |
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| A sealed barrel. Liversan is one of the chateaux who
make Kosher wine and the barrel is sealed so that it can be made sure
that only an authorised rabbi manipulates the wine |
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| Tasting the château
Liversan |
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Pierre
Courdurie of Domaines Lapalu tasting the wine |
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Lunch at the château
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| With more wines to taste, e.g. the
Patache d'Aux which is also a Lapalu property |
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Choux farci |
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Dessert: ‘crème brûlée, crumble aux
pommes et petit pot au chocolat’ |
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| Château
Patache d'Aux 1999 |
Le Prince de Polignac, a previous
owner |
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