These first days of 2024 are an opportunity for the Grand-Puy Ducasse team and myself to wish you all the best for this upcoming vintage, and to unveil the "heart of the new reactor" that is the estate's main vat room. Take my word for it: the bolts are tight!
Château Grand-Puy Ducasse's new vat room now enables us to produce even more distinctive, precise and moving wines! It houses 55 vats for 40 hectares of vineyards: 46 double-skinned stainless steel truncated cone-shaped vats ranging from 30 to 129 hectolitres for vinification, and 7 concrete vats dedicated to maturing and blending the wines.
Those of you who remember our old vat room - only 29 tanks - can easily imagine how our range of possibilities has expanded. Grand-Puy Ducasse's resilience and ability to adapt to vintages that follow one another but never resemble one another have been multiplied.
We look forward to welcoming you without a hard hat in the weeks to come!
photo credit : Gabriel Guibert