Château MARTET - The Pride of my father 2016
Château Martet is located in the commune of Eynesse, in the Sainte-Foy Côtes de Bordeaux appellation, 25km from Saint-Emilion in the Bordeaux wine region. He belongs to the de Coninck family . In 1993, Patrick de Coninck, a wine merchant in Brussels, began a heavy program of restructuring the vineyard which ended in 2006: uprooting of grape varieties that were poorly adapted to the soil, uprooting of large vines with too low planting density, vat entirely redone, extension of the barrel cellars… In 1998, he trusted Louis Mitjavile (Château Tertre Roteboeuf, Roc de Cambes) to advise him on both viticulture and oenology. The 33-hectare vineyard is located on the hillsides overlooking the Dordogne and is managed according to the principles of sustainable agriculture , with HVE 3 (High Environmental Value) certification since the 2020 vintage. The flagship grape variety is Merlot since it represents 20 hectares of surface planted with vines. In 2016, Patrick de Coninck passed away and his family decided to pay homage to him by creating the “La Fierté de mon Père” cuvée. Since 2021, Nina Mitjavile is Vineyard Advisor for the property.
In 2015, thanks to an exceptional vintage and unfortunately following the death of Patrick, his children and his wife decided to dedicate a special cuvée to him: La Fierté de mon Père . It is made with Merlot and aged for 18 months in new Radoux oak barrels . La Fierté is not a micro cuvée, but rather an extrapolation of what La Réserve de la Famille will become over time.
Grape variety: 100% Merlot
