Attended a tasting of around 20 types of wine today. Mostly mid and low level classified growths, with the big names unfortunately not making an appearance. Still, it was a welcome opportunity to taste the wines after reading so much doom and gloom about the 2013 vintage from the wine press (pun un-intended).
The wines generally turned out to be better than expected. More like 2008 than 2007. The best wine of the evening was the Domaine de Chevalier blanc which was very concentrated and long, followed by the rouge version. Its Pessac Leognan neighbour from Chateau Malartic Lagraviere came up a close third. Both the reds were medium-bodied with tastes of ripe black fruits and were smooth and well balanced, despite the fact that these were just barrel samples which had just taken an intercontinental flight from France to Singapore. One can only imagine that they will improve significantly with time.
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