As the World Turns
May 14, 2008
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WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO BORDEAUX
PRICING??
BEST VALUE DISCOVERY ADJACENT TO CHEVAL
BLANC-
2005 Chateau Haut-Segottes Saint-Emilion Grand Cru -
Bordeaux
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Dear Wine Friend,
Think gas prices
are high!!? What about the escalating prices for
Grand Cru Bordeaux from the 2005 vintage??
YIKES!! I just checked with search tools on the
Internet to find prices
for the 1st. Growth Chateau Latour, Lafite,
Margaux, Mouton and Haut-Brion are fetching an average
of $1500 to $2000
for a 750 ml.
bottle!! Across the Gironde River on the
Right Bank of Bordeaux, a wine
of similar status, the 2005 Cheval Blanc from St. Emilion is going equally as
high! This is not a joke....this pricing is
for real!
Just 300 meters from the Cheval Blanc estate is a
small producer by the name of Chateau
Haut-Segottes. I don't know why this
estate remains such a value because the wine is damn
good! Maybe Haut-Segottes continues to
fly under the radar, because it never gets rated?
Serious wine? YES, it is! Deep cedar
and graphite aromas mingle with wild red and black
plum-cassis fruit on the nose. Broad and expansive
across the palate with a full throttle finish! I had the
wine open and decanted for two full days to finally tame
down its well endowed, big boned, tannic structure. The 2005
vintage is now considered the latest defining
benchmark classic, and like most of the decadent wines
from this vintage, Haut-Segottes is a
wine destined for the cellar to maximize future
enjoyment.
Chateau Haut Segottes has 9
hectares (about 21 acres) planted to vineyards, all
within the St. Emilion Grand Cru appellation. Chateau
Haut-Segottes is owned and operated by Danielle Andre. Mme.
Andre is also "vigneronne" and "winemaker extraordinaire".
Mme. Andre's great-grandfather purchased the estate around
1860 and earned gold medals for his wine as early as 1912
at the Concours Agricole in Paris. In 1959, the estate began
to bottle its wine in earnest. In 1972 Mme. Andre took the
reins of production. The vineyards are planted 60% to
Merlot, 35% to Cabernet Franc, and 5% to Cabernet Sauvignon
with yields controlled to about 45 hectoliters per hectare
(2.5 tons per acre). Cabernet Franc thrives in St.
Emilion where it adapts well to the cooler moist clay soils of
the region. Tradition reigns supreme at Haut-Segottes! After
fermentation, the wine is racked into barrel (20% new)
for 18 months of aging. Unfiltered and unfined, even
though more Merlot is grown, the finished wine usually
shows a majority of Cabernet Franc than Merlot in the final
blend. No surprise as Cheval Blanc
usually consists of 65% Cabernet Franc to 35% Merlot.
Annual production is about 3,000
cases.
The
price? What? A couple of hundred dollars
a bottle? NO! How about $75?
NO!!
Let's go at $44.95 a bottle.....and $41.95 if you purchase 3
bottles. Six bottles I will discount
it to $39.56 a
bottle. A case? Even with the Euro exchange
rate let's go down to $37.50 a bottle for a case
purchase. This is the
REAL DEAL! We're buying a case.
YOU WILL HAVE NO
REGRETS!!
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| 2005 Chateau
Haut-Segottes Saint-Emilion Grand Cru -
Bordeaux |
| $44.95 a
bottle
Or purchase in these quantities....
3 bottles: $41.95
6 bottles: $39.56
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If you will be visiting Napa Valley
anytime soon, let me remind about the resurgence of
downtown Napa....Yes, the city of Napa is undergoing a
monumental change and is now the new hot spot to visit.
Copia led the way, but
the new Oxbow
Public Market is a gastronome's
Disneyland....with plenty of "E tickets" to boggle the
mind. Did you know a new 350 room Ritz Carlton is being built on a
riverfront site between Copia and Silverado
Trail?
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