You have to look in front of the reality: journalists specializing in wine, of which I am a part, are spoiled rotten people. During press events, we are walked, we are nourished, we fill our glasses. We put our documents on small padded stools, we slip bottles in elegant small ribbons bags. We live “in Pasha mode”, to take over the song from Aséréotypie, the most exciting French musical group of the moment. The leg circles annoy me, this feeling of being disconnected from reality annoys me; I therefore refuse most press lunches.
And yet, I had accepted this one. Because behind the polished appearance of Jacques Lurton, owner (among others) of the Château Couhins-Lurton, oozes the baroque, the person’s personality. And that these were new cuvées, “different” I had promised me. The meeting took place at Mr. Dior, kitchens led by Jean Imbert, on the first floor of the Dior shop on avenue Montaigne in Paris, a place where you feel badly fagoté and where we dare Look at the price of a pair of socks (360 euros). It was going badly.
What a nice surprise, then. Instead of the bourgeois plan-plane lunch, I had the feeling, finally, to enter a new Bordeaux era. And from above please. Cohins-lurton, however, is not rock’n’roll. Cru classified by Graves, appellation Pessac-Léognan, south of Bordeaux, he was bought and renovated by André Lurton, the father of the current owner. André Lurton was one of the great figures of the Bordeaux vineyard. At the head of 600 hectares of vines, it was also he who founded the appellation of controlled origin Pessac-Léognan in 1987. This is the heritage that weighs on his son, on this castle, on this wine.
“Another story”
And yet this new range, a red and a white, comes to jost everything. Named “Act II,” in reference to the second part of a play “, it explains to me,” it is a new interpretation of the terroirs of the Château Couhins-Lurton “. In marketing language, c ‘ is generally a way of describing the second wine of a classified, less prestigious vintage. Not here. Because the vintage costs almost the same price as its classic alter when it is not, classic. “The idea is really to tell another story, with the same terroir and the same grapes, “assures me Jacques Lurton, sixth child of André Lurton.” But with a selection of terroirs focused on freshness and vigor, to bring out the fruity of wine. “
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