2000 Château Calon Ségur, St Estèphe, Bordeaux Large Formats sour lemon and underripe peach

sour lemon and underripe peach

but it is starting to live up to expectations

champagne that has been aged for over six years but still has the sturdy power of youth

powerful and beautifully layered in the glass

pencil shavings and subtle new oak

2000 Château Calon Ségur, St Estèphe, Bordeaux Large Formats sour lemon and underripe peachTasted from an ex chteau bottle at BI Wine & Spirits Calon Segur dinner in London. The 2000 Calon Segur is one of those wines that reminds you how great the millennial vintage could be. Now at fifteen years old, it has a brilliant, vivacious red berry nose infused with ash and cigar box aromas. The detail here is a beguiling and it just "sings" Saint Estphe. The palate is medium bodied with dense, firm tannin that provide a rigid backbone, but it is