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Here are twelve bottles of Château Berbec 2006, nice wine from Cadillac AOC (Bordeaux, in front of Sauternes on the other side of the Garonne).

Perfect state of preservation, always kept in professional cellar since their bottling. Levels into neck, labels as new.


Appellation Cadillac :

Grape varieties

The appellation area is planted with traditional Bordeaux grape varieties. Sémillon covers 70% of the area. A grape variety with potentially high concentrations of sugar, it has a thin skin which allows the Botrytis cinerea fungus to develop and produce noble rot. The 20% of Sauvignon blanc and Sauvignon gris grapes used add a touch of liveliness to the wine, while the 10% of Muscadelle add a touch of added complexity.

Viticulture
Semillon infected with botrytis.

The density of planting required is at least 4,500 vines per hectare. The distance between rows should be 2.50 metres at most, and the distance between individual vines within the row should be at least 0.85 metres.

Pruning of vines should take place annually, before the first leaves have fully developed. Single and Double Guyot, Cordon de Royat (unilateral cordon), Eventail (Fan) and Gobelet (Goblet) are the permitted pruning methods. The number of buds (that will eventually bear clusters) is limited to a maximum of 12. Once suckering and green harvesting have been completed, the maximum number of clusters allowed per vine is 14.

Plots that have been abandoned can no longer be considered part of the AOC area. Wine-growers must mow or use herbicides to prevent weeds from growing up around the vines, otherwise they could create a humid micro-climate below the leaves that would encourage the development of cryptogamic diseases. They must also carry out treatments to keep the occurrence of diseases such as mildew and oidium below the permitted quality thresholds. The proportion of dead or missing vines may not exceed 20% of the total number. If this percentage is exceeded, the final yield must be cut down proportionately.
Harvesting

Harvesting is carried out when the grapes are fully ripe. The degree of ripeness is ascertained by the presence of noble rot or signs of over-maturity, i.e. grapes have begun to dry out on the vine and have become shrivelled, golden-coloured berries. It can also be assessed by measuring the sugar content. Before harvesting can begin, it must be shown that the grapes contain at least 255 grams of sugar per litre.

Harvesting is carried out manually over multiple successive pickings combined with sorting of the grapes. The grape-pickers are ordered to pick only those clusters or part-clusters which are either fully ripe or have heightened sugar content brought about by noble rot. This means that the use of harvesting machines is automatically precluded.


Winemaking
Sauvignon blanc grapes.

Once they arrive in the wine sheds, the grapes are pressed. The process is carried out slowly in order to allow enough time for the must to be extracted from the virtually dried-out fruits. Even so, yields of juice are low. The use of machines which completely break down the grapes is prohibited, i.e. self-emptying tanks with combined rotor crushers and must pumps, continuous screw presses and small diameter screw presses.

The must is placed in tanks and cooled ready for racking. Afterwards, the must is left to ferment, either in vats or in barrels.

The fermentation process is lengthy, since the sugar and alcohol slow down the activity of the yeast. Fermentation either stops naturally or is stopped by the wine-grower using cooling and sterile filtering processes: this kind of filtering uses a very fine mesh to capture the yeasts that have been anesthetized by the cold. At this stage, the wine is stabilized against possible yeast or bacterial contamination by the addition of sulfites.

The wine is left to mature in vats or barrels for several months and is not allowed to leave the wine sheds before 31 March of the year following the harvest. Quarterly rackings ensure that the lees held in suspension in the wine are gradually removed. Before being bottled, the wine is filtered and the sulfite level is adjusted. 

Cadillac (Bordeaux) - France. Perfect state of preservation

 2006 Château Berbec, Cadillac AOC - 12 bottles 

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Wine Grading

92/100 points, Robert Parker

95/100 points, Robert Parker

93/100 points, Wine Spectator

96/100 points, Decanter

91/100 points, Wine Spectator

96/100 points, Robert Parker

98/100 points, Robert Parker

95/100 points, Wine Spectator

92/100, Wine Enthusiast

95/100 points, Decanter

97/100 points, Robert Parker

17/20 points, Jancis Robinson

96/100, Wine Enthusiast

93/100 points, Decanter

92/100 points, Wine Spectator

94/100 points, Wine Spectator

93/100 points, James Suckling

97/100 points, James Suckling

91/100, Wine Enthusiast

97/100 points, Decanter

94/100 points, Decanter

96/100 points, Falstaff

92/100 points, Decanter

98/100 points, Wine Spectator

94/100 points, James Suckling

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