La Petite Julia, Haut-Médoc, 2021

Grand Vin de Bordeaux, AOC Haut-Médoc

60% Merlot, 35% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Petit Verdot

All stainless steel for this wine, keeping it fresh. Pretty, perfumed black fruit with a mineral, herbal core.

On the sandy Medoc plains around the village of Pauillac, down a dirt track road there are two small parcels making up about 30 rows of 60-year-old Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon vines planted by Sophie Martin’s father and grandfather. They sold the grapes to local cooperatives until 2010, when neighbouring coop growers started selling their land to Lynch-Bages, Sophie decided to build a barn in her garden and buy winemaking equipment.