Chateau Phelan Segur Saint-Estephe 2016 CALIOTHER The wine is extremely pleasant

The wine is extremely pleasant

The opportunity to taste with Duncan and Nathan in such an intimate setting provides insights into how they've influenced an entire generation of California winemakers

with aromas of ripe orchard fruit and white flowers

and my olfactory memory has never been so aggressively triggered

The result has the fine

Chateau Phelan Segur Saint-Estephe 2016 CALIOTHER The wine is extremely pleasantPhlan Sgur is one of Saint Estphe's most reliable estatesan unclassified estate (Phlan Sgur withdrew from the Cru Bourgeois system in 2010) sitting on the Gironde riverbank next door to Montrose. The 2016 carries special significance: it was the final vintage made under the Gardinier family, who had owned and rebuilt the property since 1985 before selling to Belgian investor Philippe Van de Vyvere in 2018. The vintage itself was one of Bordeaux's