I think I've had this one in the cellar for at least a couple of years. I had planned to drink it with M&C but their lack of meat eating and the intervention of kids means opportunities are thin on the ground. A better plan was to drink it with Mr G whilst cooking an epic meal.
Mr G raved about it and I would agree it had much to reccomend it. One thing I did feel was noteworthy was the fact that it was noticably dominated by round soft plumy flavours that may indicate that Merlot is calling the shots here. I say 'may' because I've read that right bank wines such as St Emillion and Pommerol tend to have much higher Merlot content than say, Medoc wines so I hesitate to say that this is what we were picking up but it's certainly a possibility. It didn't seem to have much in the way of complexity but was a treat nontheless. Having said that, I believe it comes in at over £25 (a 2005 is £35 with National Wine) so it falls down on the value side.
Certainly, it had a good deal more character than a 2005 Chateau Greysac that we also drained whilst cooking: dry faintly ceadery finish but very little fruit on the attack.
Incidentally, we had a massive dissaopointment with the main course. Namley, a £20 chunk of 'fillet' steak. It was tough, stringy, flavourless and generally a dreadful peice of meat that did it's best to ruin a great afternoon/evening.
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