Tasting Note

Fleshy sweet blackberry fruits with touches of brighter cranberry and sour cherry. The tannins have softened over ageing, still with plenty of limestone austerity but now showing attractive creaminess and smoked tobacco through the mid palate. Always an estate worth following, from the Berrouet family.

Producer

Jean-Claude Berrouet made the wine at Pétrus – arguably the most famous estate on Bordeaux’s Right Bank – for more than 40 years. While his son Olivier has since taken over those duties, Jean-Claude continues to make wine at his family esta te in Montagne St-Emilion with his other son, Jean-François. The region is a ‘satellite’ of St-Emilion, and Jean-Claude purchased the 11-hectare property back in 1978, sensing the potential of its south-facing, clay-over-limestone soils. An d while the appellation doesn’t carry the same prestige as St-Emilion itself, this wine is an example of how the wines there used to be made 25 years ago, with richness and energy but without being and overworked or overoaked – and at a fra ction of the price.

_{Country: France | Region: Montagne Saint-Emilion, Bordeaux | Alcohol: 14.5 | Grapes: Bordeaux Blend}