Producer
Château Cissac is an attractive eighteenth-century charterhouse built, it is thought, on the site of a Roman villa. The property was created in 1899 through the merger of two estates in the village of Cissac, and Louis Vialard, the grandson of the original owners, restored and updated it in the 1940s. His granddaughter, Marie, now manages the château.
Vineyard
The Cissac vineyard occupies a hundred well-sited hectares adjoining the Saint-Estèphe and Pauillac appellations. The vines are planted on typical Médoc gravel, and average thirty-three years old. A lutte raisonnée approach is adopted, in which chemical treatments are kept to the bare minimum.
Winery
After a three-day cold maceration, the wine was fermented in a combination of wooden and conic stainless steel vats, with a maximum temperature of 26ºC and 28 days’ maceration. It was then aged in barrique for twenty months, with one third new wood.
