Chateau Calon-Segur Saint-Estephe 2006 Wine Seminar After a thousand years of

After a thousand years of growing in the San Floriano hills

cocoa nibs

it provides a touch of sweetness

fleshy fruit -- plums

Chateau Calon-Segur Saint-Estephe 2006 Wine Seminar After a thousand years ofA 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