Wine Merchant St Louis Grand Tasting

[TheEngineer]

I agree, I hope that your tasting notes are more accurate. In fact, that night we had it, I had four friends that are decent wine folks (all better than me) and all of them were stunned that the wine was a Beaucastel. If tasted blind they woould have thought it a was a new world bottle of something or other, varietals even in question.... That was how off CDP storyline this bottle was. I hope that it was just that bottle or how it was showing at the time.

As for rusticity, There are a lot of stories beig published lately that might suggest that the pendulum is starting to swing. Our recent (last couple of years) of CA Chardonnay seems to indicate that they are at least cognicent of it. Having said that, I'm more able to find wines that I like now and am starting to depend on certain producers based on my limited db.