Chateau Doyac Le Pelican 2020

Doyac Le Pelican is a red wine made by Max and Astrid de Pourtalès with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon planted in their own vineyard in Haut-Médoc Bordeaux. Biodynamic work in the vineyard, mechanized harvest with optical selection of fruit, vinification in steel and twelve months of aging in Bordeaux barrels and amphoras. Chateau Doyac is the project of Max and Astrid de Pourtalès, who left behind their busy banking and artistic professions in Paris and New York to settle in Saint-Seurin de Cadourne, a parish located not far from Saint-Estephe, in what all we know as Bordeaux viticulturally speaking. There Max had his family origins, and there he found a magnificent vineyard, 27 hectares no less, which had already been mentioned in 1850 in the book Bordeaux and its wines, published by Feret. A classic on all counts. Starting from this vineyard, and investing in the traditionalization of the field (first organic and then biodynamic) and the winery (the return of the amphorae), they have managed to make this wine of finesse and elegance that respects a terroir of calcareous clay soils planted with four parts of Merlot and one of Cabernet Sauvignon, with the influence of the Gironde estuary and an ideal exposure that makes it possible to achieve that difficult balance of mature wines but at the same time easy to drink. Their latest madness is also an anecdote. To regulate the vigor of the grass in the vineyard, they have incorporated a group of small herbivorous pigs, kune kune, which eat the grass and fertilize the soil.