Château Siran
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The Miailhe family has been at the helm of this Margaux cru for 160 years and has brought it up to Grand Cru Classé status thanks to considerable investment in recent years.
The Miailhe family, who acquired the estate from Henri Toulouse-Lautrec's grandparents in 1859, could have made a lot more money from the wines over the years if the original owner family, the Barbier family, had not refused inclusion in the 1855 classification in 1855 for political reasons. Nevertheless, the history of Château Siran is a success story that has been written even more clearly in recent years. This has a lot to do with Edouard Miailhe and his wife Seyrine, who took over the estate in 2007 and fundamentally remodelled it.
They first brought in the influential consultant Jacques Boissenot, then Hubert de Boüard from Château Angélus from 2014, and in 2016 oenologist Marjolaine Defrance and vineyard manager Jean Luc Chevalier, who is gradually converting the 25 hectares to organic cultivation. In addition, the entire Simonit & Sirch team was retrained in gentle pruning and the renovation work included a new cellar in which each parcel can be vinified separately, as well as a separate cellar for malolactic fermentation. Most vintages now contain around 35% new oak.
The Siran estate is located in the south of the Margaux appellation, near Dauzac and Giscours, in the centre of the Labarde plateau. Around 45% of the area is planted with Merlot and 40% with Cabernet Sauvignon. There is also 13% Petit Verdot and some Cabernet Franc. The wine is one of the spicy and rather opulent wines of the appellation, but is very defined and precisely matured, offering plenty of dark fruit and tannin.
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