Château du Cèdre 2014(93 points)
Spicy black-currant aromas on the nose and intense juicy black fruit on the dense palate. The rich, generous layers of fruit perfectly balance the tannins that build up to a harmonious whole.
#57 at Top 100 Wine Enthusiast 2017

Le Cèdre Cahors 2014(94 points)
Bursting with juicy ripe berry fruit and with firm background tannins. Its great fruitiness is contrasted with the strength of those tannins and with its concentration.

GC Cahors 2014(95 points)
With its dense tannins, rich black fruit flavours, acidity and restrained power, it is a major force. Even with all its weight, it’s stylish, complex and ageworthy wine.

As usual, this wine shows up in dark, purple clothes.

A little restrained in the nose, but multifaceted: Smoky smell, dark and dry fruits, a hint of mint, a little oak, cinnamon, as well as the alluring aromas of freshly baked pastry. This wine needs a little time to open up, use a decanter if you’re impatient to taste it.

Straight on the palate, with lively acidity, medium-bodied and with tight, young but fine tannins that last until the end. The final is rather long, dominated by freshness, crispy tannins and sour cherries.

You may appreciate this wine already now, for example on roast pork and roast beef, or keep it for another 8 years.

Tasted in November 2012

Dear friends,

now that the wines have achieved fermenting the last residual sugars, and we have decently celebrated the end of harvest at the Domaine de l’Arjolle, we may try a first review of the 2012 harvest.

We picked the first Sauvignon grapes at the Arjolle early in the morning on 22^nd of August, followed by the other grapes for our white wines, Chardonnay, Viognier and Muscat Petits Grains a few days later. Favourable weather conditions during this first part of harvest, allowed us to pick grapes at optimum ripeness. As a result, we have very nice and aromatic white wines with crispy acidity in our cellars.

Syrah and Cabernet Franc for our rosé Méridienne were picked in the beginning of September: fermentation was totally done in casks, to favour integration of oaky characters. The period of “bâtonnage” (stirring the lees back up into the wine) to enhance aromatics is over now and you may already fully appreciate the complexity of the fruit and the velvety taste of the wine… Summer will be hot!

September 24^th: Beginning of harvest for the red wines with Merlot and Syrah. The good weather does not last and intermittent rains towards the end of September increase pressure at the winery. We decide to wait for full ripeness of Cabernet sauvignon, which imposes a strict selection of the grapes before vatting them. And already now – which fruit and how smooth those tannins are!

This period, when we choose to cut the umbilical cord of the grapes is very delicate and every vintage is different, although there may be similarities. All along this period of hard work, care and attention for every detail are the key to success of a vintage.

For the reds some more patience will be needed: Malolactic fermentation needs to be finished, to reveal the entire mellowness of the wines. In a couple of months 2012 will be in the heart of your feasts.

For the third year in succession the Mondial du Merlot, an international wine challenge for merlot based wines, took place in Lugano in November 2010.

Our Merlot cuvee Synthèse has been awarded for the second time with a silver medal at this event, where some 300 wines from 25 countries were presented and tasted during three days.

A wine you should taste and discover if you did not yet.

Our Cab-Merlot blend has won a gold medal at the international wine competition “Mondial du Merlot”. It’s the best result for a French Merlot of the competition.

The “Mondial du Merlot” wine competition took place at Lugano/Switzerland for the second year in a row in November 2009. It rewards Merlot wines from all over the world (participants were coming from 23 different countries in 2009).

The jury’s comment:
A dark, purple colour, a straight, fruity nose with well integrated oak aromas. Rich and smooth, very well balanced in the mouth. A wine with stunning capacities for ageing.

“I would like you to taste this”, Roch Teisserenc tells me during one of my latest visits at the winery, while giving me a small bulbous bottle.
Palais Royal (in French “palais” means both palace and palate) is written on the label, with the supplementary notion “Vin de Liqueur”

Despite its size, the bottle seems quite heavy to me. Heavy and compact.
I have the same impression when once the bottle opened, the wine lazily runs
into my glass. A thick liquid, though far from looking like syrup, just gliding more slowly than usual out of the bottle.

Beyond its dark and ruby colour, it shows the slight dimness of unfiltered wines, together with some hues of red brick.
A first nose of dried fruits, chestnut and sultana. Then a second nose, a third one, more ethereal, where a pleasant perception of alcohol makes notes of cherry and blackberries to rise from the glass.
Its mellowness quickly evolves into roundness in the mouth, roundness carried by a continuous and surprising acidity, giving finally space to well constructed tannins
Once they are gone, retro olfaction remains holding delicate flavours, some of them fruity but most of them spicy : vanilla, cinnamon, a hint of chocolate...

A powerful, silky wine, perfectly suitable tailored to long winter nights, good company, Belgian chocolate and good cigars.