Flowers, chocolate, smoke, licorice and ripe plum aromatics open the wine. Here you find a round-textured, supple, lush, sweet with with a charming, generous, chocolate and plum finish.\n \n Producer Information\n Compagnie Vinicole Baron Edmond de Rothschild produces wines from a collection of six estates located in high profile wine regions in France, South Africa, Argentina, Spain, and New Zealand. The company was established in 1973 by Baron Edmond de Rothschild following his purchase of two Cru Bourgeois estates in Listrac-Médoc and Moulis-en-Médoc: Château Clarke and Château Malmaison. The Compagnie Vinicole was, from 1997 to 2021, under the leadership Benjamin de Rothschild, Edmond's son, who greatly expanded the company's portfolio to what it is today. The company's estates include Château Clarke, Château de Laurets, Flechas de los Andes, Macán, Rimpere, and Rupert & Rothschild Vignerons. Following the death of Benjamin de Rothschild in January 2021, the running of the Baron Edmond de Rothschild holdings has passed to his widow, Ariane de Rothschild. The first château of Compagnie Vinicole Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Château Clarke, is located within the Listrac-Médoc appellation and includes 55 hectares (136 acres) of vineyard land. Soils at this estate are drought-resistant and composed of clay-limestone. About 70 percent of the land is planted to Merlot, with the remainder planted to Cabernet Sauvignon, less three hectares (7.4 acres) dedicated to the white varieties Semillon, Sauvignon Blanc, and Muscadelle – used in the château's Merle Blanc white blend. Château Clarke's top wine, or "grand vin", Château Clarke, is aged 14 to 18 months before release and is composed of 70 percent Merlot and 30 percent Cabernet Sauvignon—a relatively atypical blend for Left Bank Bordeaux. At the foot of Simonsberg Mountain in the Franschhoek Valley, South Africa lies Rupert & Rothschild Vignerons, a partnership between the Compagnie Vinicole and the Rupert family, then owners of the historic French Huguenot farm Fredericksburg. The estate was founded in 1997 and extends more than 100 hectares (250 acres) with soils composed of granite and red clay. The Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Merlot vines on the estate were planted in the early 1980s and are used in the production of Rupert & Rothschild's two red blends: Baron Edmond and Classique. The estate also produces a white wine, Baroness Nadine, from Chardonnay.
