Chateau Guilhem de Mestre 2022In the Bordeaux merchant wine scene, the winners win big, and the losers fight for the scraps. Its been this way for 160 years, ever since the 1855 Grand Cru Classe system was put into place. But were gonna change it! The system was and is a rating of the wineries in Bordeaux. It rates them 1 to 5, with one being the highest or best and five being the lowest. Easy to understand, easy to learn, right? Right. Yet there are complications. The system was

Lifted and transparent

with enough fruit to be delicious

it’s a short crop

The place is heaven on earth – Washington State

James Suckling

This wine has expansive

This is truly hand crafted wine

I would like introduce you to something just as delicious – Bonarda

A thoughtful

they’ve got a lot of land

That is the world that shaped Kerner at Abbazia di Novacella

The tannins are almost resolved