Wines
Château Gilette
Bordeaux (Preignac)
1985 Crème-de-Tête
Varietals: 90% Sémillon, 8% Sauvignon and 2% Muscadelle
Soil type: Gravel and sand
Maturation: 18 Years in concrete vat
Alcohol: 14.5%
Best drinking: Now - 2020
Suggested food: Foie gras, asparagus, fish in sauce, poultry and fruit and fruit desserts.
Tasting notes / Reviews: Pale gold in colour, flavours are delicate, grapefruit and citrus with a touch of mint. It offers tasty flavours in a full bodied wine and amazingly fresh and youthful for its age.
"Deep orange-gold; very fresh, minerally, not sweet but firm and powerful with burnt orange peel flavours and tangerine acidity; great length." - 4 1⁄2 Stars, Tony Aspler, Mar 25, 08.
"Christian Medeville, Julie’s father, rejects modern marketing methods, preferring instead to keep his precious nectar made from Semillon, Sauvignon & Muscadelle in vats under anaerobic conditions for an amazing 20 years before bottling and selling it. The Crème de Tête is First Growth quality with a powerful bouquet and intense flavour of liquorice and peaches and cream, following by a long barley-sugar aftertaste." - Tom Stevenson, The New Sotheby’s Wine
$123.95 per bottle (3x 500 mL)
$246.50 per bottle (3 x 750 mL)