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(Hunt) wrote:

> In article >, says... >
> > >Dear All, > >I am new here. Enjoy drinking good wine once in a while
and since I am lucky > >enough to have a nice person around me presenting
me a few bottles of wine > >every few months, I am right now starting to
enjoy it even more. Still > >though, I do not have much real knowledge
about wine yet. I would > >appreciate, if someone could tell me some more
about the following bottle of > >wine: > > > >Cru Bourgeois > >Ancienne
Seigneurie des Comtes de Ségur > >Vin de Bordeaux Grand > >Chateau Ségur >
>Haut - Médoc > >Appellation Haut - Médoc Controlée > >1998 > >Grazioli,
Viticulteur A 33290 Parempuyre - France > >Mis en bouteille au Chateau

This is — according to Cocks & Feret — a Cru Bourgeois Superieur - and is
the first wine — the second is Domaine Boisgrand and there is a marque
wine, Ch. Ségur-Fillon. The vineyard is planted with 42% Merlot, CS 35%
CF 17%, petit Verdot 6% on Garonnes gravel. All the wine is barrel aged for
18 to 24 months,
30% to 40% in new oak.

Given the quality of the vineyard — a Cru Bourgeois Superieur — and its
position I would have said that it would probably be ready to drink bu the
extensive use of oak makes me wonder if it would not benefit from a year or
two more. 1998 was, on the whole, a far better year for the Right Bank and
the Merlot on higher ground than the Left from which this comes. You can
be sure that while it might improve over the next couple of years or more
drinking it now will be an interesting learning experience. If you can fid
the same wine from a different year or years and open the two together — a
short vertical tasting in effect — that experience will be heightened and
you will begin to see the influence of grower and terroir and that of the
year.

HTH — whatever you do, enjoy the wine or the learning experience or both!

Timothy Hartley