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>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
>
>is all that is to be read on the bottle. Is that a bottle of wine that I
>should be keeping a few more months or years to be better? Is it worth
>keeping for a while before drinking it or is it nothing too special? What
>about the price in money?
>
>I'd be happy about just any information you might be able to give me about
>that wine.
>
>Thanks, Bastian

Welcome Bastian,

I am not familiar with Chateau Ségur, but the Cru Bourgeois is a bit of clue
as to the placement in the hierarchy of Bdx. If you call the classified
growths as the top 5-10% of the Bdx wines, then you have a very large group of
Cru Bourgeois making up around the next 20%. Within that group, there are
basically three classifications: Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel (maybe 5%), Cru
Bourgeois Superieur (maybe 30%), then the rest is simply Cru Bourgeois. I do
not know how 1998 was for St-Estèphe, but considering that this wine is
somewhat near the "middle" of the Bdx production, it will probably not be
great. However, it might well be a very enjoyable wine, as most Cru Bourgeois,
regardless of hierarchy, are. I hope someone knows this wine and is familiar
with the '98 vintage, to give you an idea of wheter it is a hold, or drink-now
wine. I'd lean, out of ignorance, to drinking it now, but see what others say,
in case this happened to be a tannic monster, needing a few more years to
develop beyond its lineage.

Hunt
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