AOP Bourg “Plaisir Simple”

Les Jardins d’Edina

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Type

Red Wine

Appellation

Côtes-de-Bourg

Variety

95% Merlot
05% Malbec

Viticulture

Soil type

Clay-silt and clay-limestone soils.

Vinification

Hand-harvested and double-sorted. Grapes are 100% destemmed and are macerated for two weeks.

ElevageÉlevage for 6 months in concrete vats.

Harvest typeHand Harvested

More about
the producer

Les Jardins d’Edina

Founded in 2022

14 hectares

Olivier Rivière is taking on the challenge of breathing fresh life back into the soils, the vineyards, and the winemaking of the Côtes de Bourg. Based in Lansac, Olivier founded his organic project back in 2022, which now comprises 14 hectares. Though this ambitious undertaking is also a return to beginnings; his family is from the region of Cognac, and he completed his studies in Bordeaux.

Olivier’s formative years as a winemaker took him to Burgundy. Two years later, he moved to Rioja in 2004, where he began making his own wines and continued to flourish for the following 16 years. Desiring a return to France’s South West region, the circumstances could not have been better. He saw the first parcels available for him to purchase: 8 hectares of landscapes and slopes that...

Red Wine

Côtes-de-Bourg

95% Merlot05% Malbec

Clay-silt and clay-limestone soils.

Hand-harvested and double-sorted. Grapes are 100% destemmed and are macerated for two weeks.

95% Merlot
05% Malbec