ABOUT THE WINERY
Château Kirwan is a wine that is produced from the best parcels of the vineyard that have mainly gravel soils, but some are also clay. The fruit is picked and sorted twice by hand, then vinified in separate batches corresponding to individual vineyard parcels. Half the oak barrels used to age the wine for eighteen months are renewed every year.
Kirwan’s wines are not manufactured; they result from an interpretation of factors that starts in the vineyard and is carefully executed as each winemaking step prepares for the next. Blending, which demands patience and great expertise is carried out by oeonologist Éric Boissenot, the general manager of the estate, Philippe Delfaut and Rodrigo Laytte, his technical director. The young wines are then aged in barrels, half of which are new, in the ageing cellar for twenty months, scarcely awoken by traditional fining with egg whites and racking by candle light.
