Chateau Calon-Segur Saint-Estephe 2006 Wine Seminar cocoa nibs

cocoa nibs

fleshy fruit -- plums

yet delicious

and they have spent the last two decades rewriting the script on what wine from this hot southern corner of France can taste like

Chateau Calon-Segur Saint-Estephe 2006 Wine Seminar cocoa nibsA mature Saint Estphe approaching its twentieth birthday, and showing the quiet authority that classed growth Bordeaux earns with time. Calon Sgur is the famous Third Growth on the northern edge of the Mdoc, the one whose label bears a heart the Marquis de Sgur famously said that while he made wine at Lafite and Latour, his heart belonged to Calon. The 2006 is one of the last bottlings in the old, Merlot forward style, and it's drinking beautifully