The Society's Côtes de Bordeaux 2020 is no longer available
This is a carousel with zoom. Use the thumbnails to navigate, or jump to a slide. Use the zoom button to zoom into a image.
Sold Out
The Society's Côtes de Bordeaux 2020
Red Wine from France - Bordeaux
A deeply coloured and ripe claret from the Bordeaux vineyards of member favourite Château de Pitray. Rich, with plump merlot fruit on the palate.
is no longer available
Code: CL271
Wine characteristics
- Red Wine
- Full-bodied
- Merlot
- 75cl
- Now to 2028
- 14.5% Alcohol
- no oak influence
- Cork, diam
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- 100ml of this wine contains 77 kcal
- The bottle contains 10.9 units of alcohol
- A 125ml glass of this wine contains 96 kcal and 1.8 units of alcohol
The UK Chief Medical Officers recommend adults do not regularly drink more than 14 units per week. For information and support on responsible drinking please see www.drinkaware.co.uk. For more information about how calories in wine are measured, click here.
Château de Pitray
The majestic estate of Château de Pitray has been in the de Boigne family for 600 years. Situated on the Gardegan plateau in the west of the Dordogne Valley, the property falls under the Côtes de Castillon appellation, but it lies just 8km from the better-known town of Saint-Emilion. Pitray is thought by many to be amongst the finest properties in the appellation.
The château itself has been rebuilt twice, most recently in 1868 when it was built in a wonderful Victorian Gothic style, with a recent £1 million roof sprucing the place up after hail damage. The building is hidden amongst century-old oak and cedar trees at the end of a sweeping drive, with the vineyards planted around the outskirts of the estate to preserve the château’s serenity. Indeed, its builders thought that a view of the vines would be rather vulgar and hid them from sight. However, far from being an elite residence sequestered away, the château is hired out for elaborate cocktail parties and weddings, and some of its rooms are used for a memorable bed-and-breakfast experience. On top of all that, oak trees are now being planted with a view to producing truffles!
Since 2003, the estate has been run by current generation Jean de Boigne. He farms the estate sustainably with the health of the soils, vines and the environment around them uppermost in his mind. The 37 hectares of vineyards are split into 75% merlot and 25% cabernet franc, both of which enjoy the clay-limestone soils, and vines have an average...
Decanter
Read moreThis is the kind of thing The Wine Society does so well: affordable, everyday-drinking claret, made in an unpretentious but quality-minded way. In this case, the name behind the own label is Château...
The Observer
Read moreThe Wine Society has a nice line in Old World classics. It is a great place to find fairly priced claret, for example, [including] the succulent unoaked merlot of the Society’s own Côtes de Bordeaux by...