| Château Le Boscq, Cru Bourgeois, St. Estephe 2005 Grape Varieties 60% Merlot 23% Cabernet Sauvignon 10% Petit Verdot 7% Cabernet Franc
Food Matching Note: Roast turkey with herbed bread stuffing and giblet gravy, leg of lamb with a rosemary, lemon, and garlic crust and roasted potatoes or the traditional roasted rib-eye steak with herbed mustard sauce and root vegetables.
Tasting Note: This is a pretty, elegant wine, with attractive berry and cherry aromas. Spicy, black currant flavoured offering fine depth It is medium bodied, good mid-palate with silky tannins and a long fleshy finish.
Vinification Note: Vineyard : Medoc -16,5 ha (41 acres) Harvest : 100 % hand picking, use of a sorting table.
Wine making : Brand new winery equipped with small capacity stainless steel vats allowing fermentation by individual parcel.
Maturing : Ageing 15 to 20 months by individual parcel in oak barrels.
Consultant Oenologist : Michel Rolland
Find this wine at www.winestore.co.uk Price: £34.48 (Including VAT at 20%)
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