Saint-Émilion Red Bordeaux Blend

passed it's prime

VA. Red currant, blood, sanguine, ash, minerality. Medium integrated tannins and high acidity.

Deep cherry fruit, spice. Round and balanced but still quite youthful.

Red fruit, lively, vibrant finish. Full-on but not heavy.

Stewed fruit, cherries, leather and more leather and more leather. Very good if you like leather things.

Retains a sweetness and purity of fruit, albeit deeply integrated into the woodsy campfire, herbs, baking spices, leather, and oak, and layered with Brett-inflected tertiary complexity; the texture is plush and inviting but mellow; pleasantly contemplative.

Definitely a Christmas Day wine. Blackberry, currants, mulled spices that cling to the back of the tongue. Pair with pets for a German Shepherd around the ears to achieve this face 🥴.

Cigar box, leather, iron, smoke and dried herbs. Absolutely delicious and exciting to smell! A throwback to the other 'classy' 60's bordeauxs' I've had the pleasure of drinking: gun flint, tar, black tea, baking spice: reminds me of freshly toast bread sprinkled with graphite powder.

From a grand vintage. Black and blue fruits, soft spicebox & leather, some earth, smooth and elegant. Spice more pronounced with food. It's right around it's peak for the next 3-5 years.

Ronnie had this 11 years ago