Château les Croisille, Cahors

The Croisille family has been growing wine in Cahors since 1979, more precisely on the plateau of the municipality of Luzech, which with its calcareous soils offers an ideal terroir for the Malbec grape variety (called Cot here). Château les Croisille has now grown to an impressive 30 hectares through the purchase of the neighboring Domaine de Fage winery. The three sons Germain, Nicolas and Simon have now taken over the winery and are committed to biodynamic viticulture. They have removed any rusticity from the thick-skinned Malbec and produce decidedly fine Cahors wines that can withstand, if not need, several years of storage.

The philosophy of the house is based on the belief that great wine is created in the vineyard and not in the cellar. As a logical development towards wines full of character that reflect their origins as naturally as possible, the winery has been organically certified since 2013 and produces according to the strict Demeter specifications.

The Château les Croisille wines are of a very high class. A qualitative pacesetter for the entire French southwest. Precise tannins, shaped by the terroir/soil, straightforward and even extremely fine, an attribute that was previously considered impossible for Cahors Malbecs. The Croisille family can do it. They are part of a new generation of French winemakers who place elegance and first-class tannin quality at the top of the list as the desirable characteristics of a red wine.

The outstanding quality of the Croisille wines was underlined by the wine magazine Decanter, in whose large Cahors tasting with 100 wines from the region, Château les Croisille took first place with its "Divin 2011".