1998 Chateau Coufran

[TheEngineer]

Vintage of the century was suppose to have been the 2000 vintage...errrr and then the 2003 vintage,...err and then 2004 was not so bad, errr...and then 2005 was THE vintage, err...and then 2006 was not so bad but more expensive than 2004 and in some cases 2005...err....

For me, 2000 is pretty good and some wines are starting to come around. 2005 is really good and most have not shut down yet (and easily found). 2003 was the ultrawarm year 40 degreesC and 15K+people died in Paris from the heatwave..... Wines were very ripe.

BTW, I love Rhone wines too. Northern Rhone is more structured but southern rhones can be very nice, fruity and ripe. If these are the wines you like, there is nothing much in Bordeaux that will be as fleshy as these....unless you get into the Pavie's etc, which are ridiculously expensive nowadays.... though I had a 05 Pontent Canet and that was about as close as it gets (most would think that it was from Cali in a blind taste test).