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Winemakers
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Cahors Les Laquets, Le Sid
Matthieu Cosse, Catherine Maisonneuve
Mathieu Cosse and Catherine Maisonneuve started their small domaine in 1999. Yields are low, around 30 hectolitres per hectare, and quantities are miniscule. The vines are treated without the use of any chemical herbicides or pesticides, and the wines are made as naturally as possible, respecting the different parcelles of soil. The 1999 is spicy, ripe and chewy, with rich spicy oak flavours. Long, powerful and complex, it is just starting to show its potential. The 2000 has more concentration, as the vintage was hotter. It has big broad rich black cherry fruit, with firm acidity and ripe tannins.
The 2001 vintage was exceptional, and Mathieu and Catherine produced two cuvees; the
Laquets, from their vineyard based on a limestone soil, and Le Sid, a 9 hectare vineyard on the plateau of Prayssac, on a deeper soil of soft yellow limestone, with silica and iron rich red clay. The Sid is 90% Malbec, the balance of Merlot and Tannat, from 30 year old vines. The yield was very low, as was the yield for Les Laquets, which gave only a third of the usual crop. Quantities are very limited. The quality is truly outstanding. |
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