Chateau Deyrem Valentin Margaux 2020 750 ML

For three generations the Sorge family has tended vineyards on the left bank, in the Haut-Medoc under Chateau Valentin, as well as Chateau Deyrem-Valentin and Chateau Soussans in Margaux. The family acquired the Deyrem-Valentin estate at an auction in 1928, securing some of the oldest vines of Cabernet Sauvignon in Margaux. Now all three wines are made at the Deyrem estate (Soussans is adjacent and Valentin north in the Haut-Medoc). Christelle Sorge is leading the estate: farming organically, sorting in the vineyard as well as the cellar and carrying-out fermentations in cement followed by a conservative amount of new oak, which never exceeds 33%. The wines are polished yet retain their rawness, a pure core of what it means to be Margaux. For Christelle, who took over from her father Jean in 2002 and was born at Deyrem-Valentin, it is not only her work, it is her home. Christelle does not like sledgehammer Bordeaux and her passion is to make wines that translate Margaux. It’s so overplayed, but it’s so true…“balance and restraint,” those are her immediate words when speaking about her wines.