Wine Chateau La Lagune Haut-Medoc AOC 3-eme Grand Cru Classe 1998

Chateau La Lagoon - the main wine estates. The grapes for this wine is a manual process, use small basket so as not to harm the grapes. After destemming grapes sorted once more and subjected to gentle compression. Alcoholic fermentation is carried out after a short maceration for two weeks. Wine kept for 18 months in oak barrels, 5% of which - new.
The first half of 1998, despite a rainy April, was quite favorable for flowering vine. Successful was dry and hot in August, the temperature then reached 38C heat. The result is a very juicy and flavorful grapes, and even light rains in early September did not stop to collect a fine crop. Full taste this wine will reach in 2006-2016 gg.

Chateau La Lagoon belongs to one of the brightest in Bordeaux success stories. Chateau La Lagoon, the first mention of which dates back to the 18th century, became famous when he was awarded the 3rd class in the classification of 1855. In the 19th century this wine was not equal - it has been awarded numerous awards and medals. Gastronomic guides of the time noted that even after 40 years, this wine does not lose its best qualities.
During the Second World War, the state of the economy Chateau La Lagoon, like many others, went into decline. Numerous potential buyers folded, not wishing to expend energy on the reconstruction of wine production. But in 1958, Chateau La Lagoon gets Georges Brunet (Georges Brunet). It is fully updated vineyard and built a wine shop, is still considered one of the most modern in the Medoc. In 1962 he sold the estate in the hands of the famous house "Ayala Champagne (Champagne Ayala)», which with the same fervor and passion continued reconstruction of La Lagoon. The most revolutionary innovation of the company, still has no analogues, was a mix of fermentation tanks with a basement shop shutter network of pipelines for the transportation of wine in the absence of contact with air. Chateau began to recover its former reputation and become one of the most beautiful in the Medoc. Winery equipment meets the latest requirements of technical ideas combined with medokskoy tradition.