Bordeaux Rouge

The Rothschild family has been producing wine in Bordeaux since 1868 and know this beautiful landscape and understand the unique traits of the vines from each appellation. The family was inspired to create a new wine series, where each wine would be the epitome of the appellation it came from. Their motivation was simple: to ensure wine lovers everywhere could dive into Bordeaux and taste the originality of each appellation. And so, the Les Légendes range was born. The production of Les Légendes is supervised by oenologist Diane Flamand and has benefited from Diane’s ambition to create long-term partnerships with vineyard growers around each appellation. Diane creates wines following the same approach as the Rothschild family: passion, discipline, humility, excellence, and harmony. Generations of local knowledge have taught our grape growers the secrets of the landscape that create the most outstanding Bordeaux Rouge. Nestled between the Garonne and the Dordogne River lies the Entre-Deux-Mers. This hilly region boasts a variety of soils, giving a great diversity of terroirs that are perfectly suited to our grapes. This unique landscape is what creates the harmonious blend of flavors bursting from our Bordeaux Rouge.

Les Légendes Bordeaux rouge comes from the Entre-deux-Mers region. This vast territory offers a diversity of terroirs and soils, ranging from chalky-clay plots well suited for Merlot, to well-exposed gravelous slopes. 2022 was a vintage marked by a succession of climatic excesses of varying intensity from April onwards (frost, hail, drought and heatwaves). It will be remembered as one of the earliest of the last 20 years. A mild, dry winter led to early bud-break, flowering was rapid and uniform thanks to perfect weather conditions (hot and dry) and very low sanitary pressure. Thanks to the high water reserves from 2021, the vines were able to withstand the drought and heatwave during the summer. Two thunderstorms in August enabled all grape varieties to finish their ripening in the perfect conditions. This climatically excessive vintage produced great red wines, surprisingly well-balanced and harmonious.

This wine in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks. Alcoholic fermentation (82°F) was followed by 15 days of maceration, in order to obtain a good concentration of oak (30% of the final blend). This wine is subtly oaked, in order to keep a good balance between the fruit and the wood.

The wine displays a medium garnet color. On the nose, expressive and aromatic, with initial notes of roasted coffee and toasted bread followed by subtle spicy aromas of black pepper. The palate is full-bodied and creamy, supported by a well-structured framework and ripe, well-integrated tannins. The finish is fresh and persistent, revealing lingering flavors of blackberry accompanied by delicate spice notes.