Jovencitas De 13 Años

Wines of Bordeaux: Saint Julien vs Saint-Émilion

Left vs. right bank Dardogne

1. Château Figeac, La Grange Neuve de Figeac (second label of Château Figeac) 2003, appellation Saint-Émilion Grand Cru AOC strains: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot (this is probably the only château on the right bank of the river Dardogne, whose wines are not dominated by Merlot variety), Region: Bordeaux, Country: France
   Branaire-Ducru Château, Duluc (also a second label) in 2002, an appeal: Saint Julien AOC strains: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot (there is already canonical, left bank Dardogne - the predominance of Cabernet Sauvignon), Region: Bordeaux, Country: France
   term "second label" refers to wines that are not the flagship of the château. So such a reserve bench, so that there is still a very strong team;
2. Color: La Grange slightly longer brick. Duluc, although a year older, has kept a darker color. When decanting wine more sludge left on the wall of the bottle Duluc.
3. Nose: La Grange, for 8 years prior to decanting wine, it smelled very intensively (chokeberry, black pepper, tobacco and some blackberries.) After 2 hours in the carafe nose became even more fruity.
   Duluc smell after opening the mushrooms and fried bacon. Fruit was not even in the background. After 2 hours of decanting, there are blackberries, blueberries and some quite a bit of pepper. But even then, the nose was much less intense than in La Grange ;

4. Taste: La Grange so lost in the taste present in the flavor of the fruit. Last tannins also left some two years ago. Was clearly noticeable as the taste of wet tobacco, tea and pepper. The wine had a long bitter finish.
   Duluc much more tannin, a smaller, but slightly acidic. Heavily blackberry with a touch of pepper;
5. Price: La Grange EUR 34, EUR 27 Duluc. Wine is undoubtedly more complex La Grange, although I got the impression that the apogee of glory was 1-2 years ago. A particularly interesting fact of the existence of many nieowocowych elements, especially in the taste, which is not in today's times, neither frequent nor overly appreciated. Noteworthy is also brilliant, lively, not only as an 8-year-old wine nose. For Duluc time was a bit more gracious. I think that the wine the next 3 years, few, if any, will change. In addition, Branaire-Ducru Château taken care of all the mushroom, miss the long winter evenings, the smell of wet mushrooms. After opening Duluc their nostalgia, even partly, to be soothed. Is slightly disappointing for the same taste, which should offer something more than a kilo half a kilo of blackberries and pepper. While having the neck 9 years, it is no longer so easy to surprise.

opening a bottle of Bordeaux château classified one can be sure. It will be interesting. Starting from the verification of records in the local property classifications, class of wine inside the château, vintage prestige, often ending with the tasting challenging, requiring a long aging and decanting before drinking is mandatory wines. Of course there are those who say that buying a bottle of Bordeaux we pay, in large part, precisely for these "okołowinne" elements. Not entirely agree with that. In the opening Bordeaux bottle is something in the air. And it is not only a flavor of wine.

At the end of a pinch of boring, albeit with a useful theory of Bordeaux:

Château Figeac in the classification applicable in the appeal of Saint-Émilion is one of the grands crus classes Premiers B (one of the 15 best château on appeal). Wine La Grange Neuve de Figeac is the second label of the manufacturer. Robert Parker considers born in 2003 in Saint-Émilion as extremely good.

Branaire-Ducru Château in the still existing estates in Médoc classification of 1855 is the fourth (on a scale from one to five) groups. Duluc is also a second label. Year 2002 in Saint Julien is considered by Parker to be good.