Tasting Note: One of those properties that has been quietly putting out excellent quality vintages for the past few years, and they do not drop the pace here. It is a little on the closed side right now, but the grilled black fruits and raspberry and charcoal-tinged minerality is clear. This is going to provide some excellent medium term drinking. 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot, aged for 12 months in 30% new oak. – 91 points Decanter Magazine

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The vineyard dates back many years and can be found on maps drawn up by the cartographers Cassini and Belleyme at the end of the 18th century.Jean Laclotte, a famous architect of the time, built Picque Caillou in 1756. Later on, his son Etienne Laclotte made it his summer residence to take advantage of the warmth and mildness of the gentle Aquitaine climate. Etienne Laclotte died in 1812. Successive owners took little care of the vineyard until the property was bought in 1947 by Etienne Denis, a Bordeaux entrepreneur based in Indo-China, who entrusted the vineyard to competent estate managers. After the property had passed into the hands of his son, Alphonse Denis, it was his grand-daughter Isabelle, along with her husband Paulin Calvet, who became the owners in 1997.

Country: France | Region: Pessac Leognan, Bordeaux | Alcohol: TBC | Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot