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One almost expects each bottle to be packed with a cashmere cardigan thrown over its shoulders, so dapper is proprietor Stephan von Neipperg. Purchased by his family in 1991, it really started to show its class in 1995. 90% Merlot, it sits in cold clay soils on a slightly sloping clay limestone part of the plateau. The processes here throughout are as meticulous as one might expect, with hand picking and the fruit sorted both before and after the destemmer. 80% new oak is used in the cellar and the wine is neither fined nor filtered.
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Now you see it, now you don`t. Vineyard or pine plantation? However since the late 1860s this has been a wine estate and in both red and white wines a hugely successful one. There is one fly in the ointment though, like Volnay and Pommard, their particular micro-climate seems to attract incredibly localised hailstorms. Not desirable. Otherwise the estate fashions its highly praised wines from, for the reds, a 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot and 2% Cabernet Franc mix, though obviously the proportions vary from vintage to vintage. -
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Today, Le Pin is such a well-established member of the pantheon of the world’s greatest wines, it’s interesting to recall that it wasn’t always thus. Under its previous owner, a Mme F Loubie, the wine had been blended with lesser wines and sold exclusively in Belgium as Clos du Pin. Mme Loubie wanted to sell it to Leon Thienpont so that he could join it with Vieux Chateau Certan but, with six children to support, there was no way Leon could afford it. In 1978, Mme Loubie died.
