Chateau Calon-Segur Saint-Estephe 2006 Jura and Savoie On the nose intense red

On the nose intense red fruit aromas dominate

Prohibition and fashion buried the grape

• Walk-around tasting with more than 15+ wines poured

This one spent its life in German oak rather than the usual mixed cooperage

Chateau Calon-Segur Saint-Estephe 2006 Jura and Savoie On the nose intense redA 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