| Region | |
|---|---|
| Subregion | France > Bordeaux > Left Bank > St Estèphe |
| Colour | Red |
| Type | Still |
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Very attractive, with lots of blackberry and currant character. Full-bodied, with chewy tannins and a long finish. Impressive. Very close to the 2005.
Bright, vibrant crimson and fresh, rather over the top sweet nose with plenty of oak-derived mocha and spice. Then real palate pinching finish. Definitely stern at the moment but may just have enough fruit to come through.
I drank this one evening with a friend on the third of my four trips to Bordeaux this year: sober, satisfying left-bank thinker's claret from a great gravel-over-clay terroir, and much better than its generally modest score tally suggests. The lesson - at well under £200 a case -- is that the best unclassifed Médoc properties offer, without shouting about it (and unfashionable as it may be to say so), some of the greatest red-wine value in the world.
