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Château Prieuré-Lichine - Margaux 2010 (750ml)
Price: $109.99
| Producer | Château Prieuré-Lichine |
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| Country | France |
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| Region | Bordeaux |
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| Subregion | Margaux |
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| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
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| Vintage | 2010 |
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| Sku | 593611 |
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| Size | 750ml |
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What we know of as Chateau Prieure Lichine today started out as a priory for Benedictine monks. The monks produced Bordeaux wine for dinner and various religious ceremonies. Like many estates during the French Revolution, Prieure Lichine was seized, split up and sold at auction. Fast-forward to 1991, when the noted author and wine merchant Alexis Lichine put together a group to purchase the chateau along with other vineyards in Margaux at the time, including Chateau Lascombes. By the time they arrived in the Medoc to buy Chateau Prieure, due to neglect and a lack of finances, the vineyard was down to only 28 planted acres. Because everything about the estate was in bad condition, Chateau Prieure-Lichine was sold for a song. It was onward and upward from that point on. After Lichine’s death in 1989 the estate was managed for several years by his son Sacha, then sold to Group Ballande, a successful Bordeaux negociant, in 1999 for close to twenty million British pounds. This 2010 from a spectacular Bordeaux vintage is almost entirely Cabernet and Merlot with a bit of Petit Verdot blended in; with aromas of cassis, spice, flowers and earth, it is full-bodied with soft tannins and an elegant finish.
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