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La Source's 2006 was a joy to taste. Dark, plump and juicy, it is fresh and vibrant with fine tannins and a moderate length. It has good concentration but at the same time does not take itself too seriously. This will make an early and pleasurable drinker.
La Source's 2006 was a joy to taste. Dark, plump and juicy, it is fresh and vibrant with fine tannins and a moderate length. It has good concentration but at the same time does not take itself too seriously. This will make an early and pleasurable drinker.
The superior red from Ch de Sours, now under ambitious new management and ownership, has obviously had some top quality oak and plenty of attention lavished on it even if the fruit struggles slightly to fill the gap in the middle. Let's hope prices are not too ambitious. Some slightly green notes on the finish.
When the Romans first planted a few vines on the limestone outcrops of St Emilion in the early years of the first century, and tasted what was, by all accounts, rather thin, bitter wine, they can hardly have imagined that the region's greatest red wines would become the most sought afterfine wines in the world. From the days in the seventeenth century when the then owners of Ch Haut Brion, the de Pontac family, became the first to export to the UK, selling their wine in their own tavern, the Pontac's Head, red Bordeaux or claret has been the Englishman's favourite. The wines of the 1855 Classification are merely the tip of the iceberg. Bordeaux AC accounts for about half of all wine produced in the area, from vineyards outside the regional or communal appelations and often blended by the negociant houses. Simpler beasts these although still clearly related to their more illustrious cousins - relatively light and fresh, full of fruit, with soft tannins making for delicious, and good value, early drinking.
