Highlights
Clos Manou Medoc 2018
The palate is silky, with cassis and bilberry notes alongside more juice-filled, textured blackberry notes. It’s ambitiously structured, with plenty of cocoa, dark chocolate and pencil shavings. A serious wine with high acidity that should age well. They have gone long on the tannins this year, but they are integrated and this is ready to drink with an hour decant. 5% Petit Verdot completes the blend. Owned by François and Stéphane Dief, the property is located in St Christoly du Médoc. 2023 – 2034
Clos Manou is a Bordeaux wine estate producing a pair of red wines under the Médoc AOP. The eponymous grand vin tends to feature significant percentages of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon; the second wine, Petit Manou, is usually more Merlot-dominated.
Francoise and Stéphane Dief produced just 600 bottles of their first vintage, the 1998, from 0.12 hectares (0.3 acres) of vines, using their garage as the bottle cellar. In order to develop their own vineyard holdings they also built a parallel business managing wine estates.
Tasting Notes
ripe black fruits, plum, cherry, spice, tobacco and mineral hints
- BrandClos Manou
- CountryFrance
- RegionBordeaux
- TypeRed Wine
- Size750ml
- Winemaking Unfiltered or unfined
- Winemaking Native yeast or wild fermented
- Aging Oak aged
- Aging Concrete aged
- Aging Amphora aged
- SKU 210000044102
Grapes & winemaking
- Winemaking
- Unfined — The exact Clos Manou 2018 listing states no fining was applied. ; Unfiltered — The exact Clos Manou 2018 listing states no filtration was applied. ; Native yeast — The Clos Manou 2018 product listing explicitly labels this wine Indigenous Yeast.
- Aging
- 70% new French oak for 17 months; 25% concrete egg for 12 months; 5% terracotta jar for 6 months — Exact Clos Manou 2018 product page maturation paragraph