Château Mayne Lalande

THE TERROIR OF MAYNE LALANDE 

The terroir of Listrac decomposes geologically as follows: 50% of the vineyard area consists of Garonne gravel and Pyrenees, and 50% clay and limestone 

soil.

 The Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot planted on warmer soils, gravel, with rootstocks in short cycles to optimize the maturity of 

these later varieties. The Merlots are on clay-limestone soils where they fit best. 

Rigorous, demanding, loving the job done, Bernard Lartigue is the constant search for excellence. This leads him to question themselves every day to try 

to get the best potential of the soil to develop a great wine, with a very long aging ability, worthy of a great wine of the Medoc. 

To develop a great wine, of course, the work begins in the vineyard: a deep knowledge of its soil, and each plot, respect for the traditional work on the 

ground (grass cover, soil aeration to facilitate microbial life grape load Limited to reach reasoned returns ...), green harvesting, manual stripping, the 

supply of fertilizer in small doses after analysis, no intake of nitrogenous material, ...