La Croix Simon Bordeaux Rouge AOC 2024 Organic Wine

Nutritional information per 100 ml

Contains negligible amounts of fat, saturates, protein and salt.

Merlot

This red grape with its soft, fruity, plummy and full-bodied aromas ranks third among the world's most popular red varieties. A good two thirds are grown in its French homeland. There, it is vinified on its own or lends blends full structure and early drinking readiness. Merlot is one of the six principal grape varieties permitted for Bordeaux wine production. It forms a particularly successful partnership with Cabernet Sauvignon. Blends of these two varieties promise full-bodied wines with soft structure and good ageing potential. Its name probably comes from a bird, the blackbird. The word 'merle', from which Merlot derives, means blackbird. This may suggest that these birds are particularly fond of stealing grapes from Merlot vines. Merlot makes no exceptional demands on site or climate, which may explain why, with 260,000 hectares worldwide, it is among the most widely planted wine grapes.

A distinctly fruity, delicious Bordeaux to drink young. A wine for every day!

La Croix Simon

Jean-Gabriel Yon comes from a long-established winegrowing family in Côtes-de-Castillon, near St. Emilion, and took over his parents’ estate with his wife Viviane. After initially very successful years came several setbacks, including the once-in-a-century frost of 1991. In the mid-1990s, enormous demand, particularly from Asia and the USA, fuelled a boom in Bordeaux wines and sent many prices soaring.

At La Croix Simon, they resisted the temptation to restore their finances through quick deals unlikely to prove sustainable in the long term. La Croix Simon’s vineyards produce simpler, early-drinking wines in the Bordeaux and Bordeaux Supérieur categories: fine Bordeaux for everyday enjoyment.