WW or anyone else...

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Tastevin, The wine you described is the very same! It is indeed a Bordeaux Supérieur, and one of these days I'm gonna sit down and figure out the different levels that Bordeaux can fall into. A circular blue sticker on the bottle proclaims the silver medal won by this wine in 2002 at the Concours de Bordeaux.

WW, I'm not sure where the estate is, but if Tastevin's idea is right (Cab with Merlot), then it's probably from the left bank? On the label is a section that reads "33670 Saint-Genes de Lombaud"--that's probably the main clue right there, and sometime today I'll see if I can locate this in a wine atlas somewhere.

Though I'm very much a novice with all wine, the Bordeaux presents unusual challenges to me. There are thousands of chateaux, most of which produce more than one wine, so the selections found in the stores almost seem kind of random. It doesn't help, I guess, that the labels and branding are all pretty similar from bottle to bottle, so there's little visual cue to help in making identity distinctions based on packaging. Maybe I'll just go and buy a "French Wines for Dummies" or something like that to help clear up some of the confusion.