Chateau Calon-Segur Saint-Estephe 2006 Wine Seminar some of it so vertical

some of it so vertical that he ropes himself to the hillside to pick

After a thousand years of growing in the San Floriano hills

This is his still take on Muller Thurgau

The soil is poorer and sits on a rocky limestone bench at the top of the hill as the slope tapers down and it becomes more clayey

the 2021 has settled into something broad and textural rather than merely fruity

Chateau Calon-Segur Saint-Estephe 2006 Wine Seminar some of it so verticalA mature Saint Estphe approaching its twentieth birthday, and showing the quiet authority that classed growth Bordeaux earns with time. Calon Sgur is the famous Third Growth on the northern edge of the Mdoc, the one whose label bears a heart the Marquis de Sgur famously said that while he made wine at Lafite and Latour, his heart belonged to Calon. The 2006 is one of the last bottlings in the old, Merlot forward style, and it's drinking beautifully