{"id":20520,"date":"2021-03-23T17:28:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T16:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cos.projet-client.com\/saint-estephe-un-terroir-singulier\/"},"modified":"2022-02-09T01:27:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T00:27:55","slug":"saint-estephe-un-terroir-singulier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.estournel.com\/en\/home\/cos-chronicle\/saint-estephe-un-terroir-singulier\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint-Est\u00e8phe, a singular terroir"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”A terroir to be cherished” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_separator][vc_column_text]The vines of the M\u00e9doc flourish on a narrow stretch of land seven kilometers wide that unfurls seventy kilometers from north to south along the Gironde Estuary. And it is in the M\u00e9doc\u2019s northernmost communal appellation that the gentle slopes of Saint-Est\u00e8phe compose a magnificent tableau.
\nThe lion\u2019s share of the appellation’s terroir <\/em>is composed of the same gravelly soils that are predominant throughout the left bank of the Gironde, but there is also a good amount of clay and an even more significant portion of limestone basement rock at the surface that bring the estate\u2019s Merlot to a deeper, more complex form of expression.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”12065″ img_size=”810×540″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”11975″ img_size=”810×540″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]These diverse, complex soils form a series of knolls in the immediate vicinity of the estuary. The Gironde is much wider in Saint-Est\u00e8phe, and the influence of its briny winds and its ability to temper extreme temperatures through water evaporation are felt even more strongly.<\/p>\n

Esteys<\/em>, the rivulets that run perpendicular to and flow into the Gironde, form as a result of the appellation\u2019s sloped topography and perfectly illustrate its formidable capacity to drain accumulated rainwater.
\nThe resulting marshes, or jalles<\/em>, are ecosystems in and of themselves that provide freshness that is crucial to nearby vineyards.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator color=”custom” el_width=”30″ accent_color=”#a30b34″][vc_custom_heading text=”The vineyard of Cos d\u2019Estournel is situated upon a site that a true representation of Saint-Est\u00e8phe’s terroir.” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_separator color=”custom” el_width=”30″ accent_color=”#a30b34″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Highly singular indeed, the terroir<\/em> of Cos is a true paradigm: located at the edge of a plateau on a hill of deep gravel, clay and limestone soils at the edge of the Gironde Estuary and the Breuil Jalle <\/em>that feeds into it, the vineyard of Cos d\u2019Estournel is situated upon a site that is the perfect representation of Saint-Est\u00e8phe’s terroir.
\nIt is here that Louis-Gaspard d\u2019Estournel, convinced that the ideal location of his estate would allow him to craft exceptional wines, pursued his life\u2019s masterpiece, and where Michel Reybier in 2000 was driven by the conviction that it could be \u201cCos, and only Cos.\u201d<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”11977″ img_size=”large”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cos sits upon a true representation of Saint-Est\u00e8phe\u2019s singular terroir, located along the banks of the Gironde Estuary in the northernmost reaches of the M\u00e9doc. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1749,"featured_media":20516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journal-de-bord","category-article"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estournel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estournel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estournel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estournel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1749"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estournel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.estournel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20564,"href":"https:\/\/www.estournel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20520\/revisions\/20564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estournel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estournel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estournel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estournel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}