Description
Lalande de Pomerol is generally an appellation that offers solid, but rarely life changing wines at pretty reasonable prices; and is helped along a smidge by having “Pomerol” in the name. Château de Chambrun, however, is not at all like that.
In the actual Pomerol appellation, atop a mound of blue clay sits the famed Pétrus, and arguably the single best terroir one could ask for to make Merlot…we can’t personally argue that, because we are mere mortals who’ve never had the pleasure, so that assertion will have to stand. At any rate, the dozen or so great Châteaus surrounding Pétrus all have some of their holdings on this blue clay, and the rest on a more gravelly clay. That is to say, even in Pomerol, Pétrus is in some sense on a little island all by itself.
Why are we nerding out so much about soil? Because, over in the little-brother Lalande de Pomerol to the north, on a little “altitude-island” that happens to be at same altitude as Pétrus, that exact same famed blue clay soil pops up again…and guess who farms it? Just two estates, and Château de Chambrun is one of them.
Even better, they farm organically, with nettles, clover, and mustard grass grown between the rows, and tilling all done manually. The wine drinks, in our opinion, like a top notch Pomerol but with just a little more vibrance. That isn’t to say it doesn’t have the weight, it absolutely does, but something about it is just more alive.
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