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The 2008 displays a deep rich core and a ripe fruity palate offering notes of red crunchy cherry, blackberry and subtle spice. Despite its charm, 2008's tannins and freshness kick in gently on thefinish adding depth and breadth.
The 2008 displays a deep rich core and a ripe fruity palate offering notes of red crunchy cherry, blackberry and subtle spice. Despite its charm, 2008's tannins and freshness kick in gently on thefinish adding depth and breadth.
Fine purple-red, really good colour and lovely crushed berry fruit, fleshy attact, fine flavours and good tannins, very good fruit, not yet complex but there is a good base to build on, will flesh out well and show the complexity of the terroir.
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.
