Wine Chateau Chasse Spleen Moulis-en-Medoc AOC Cru Bourgeois 2007, 375 ml
Reviews of purchase Chateau Chasse Spleen Moulis-en-Medoc AOC Cru Bourgeois 2007, 375 ml
Tasting Notes
The wine has a bright garnet color.
The taste of wine has a very complex structure and strong; rich, rounded, full-bodied, with silky tannins and excellent damaging long finish.
Rich aromas of sweet black fruit and a dense chocolate delicately intertwined with black liquor, cedar and sweet liquorice.
Ideal for meat dishes - especially beef, fried to a crisp, to the game and meat from the grill.
Interesting Facts
"Nothing banishes dark thoughts better than wine ..."
Lord Byron
"For 30 years this domain constantly produces wines that can be safely called aristocratic and noble. Even in a relatively mediocre harvest, this lady is battling spot flawless ruby dress, ripe plum bouquet and rounded the full flavor ..."
Robert Parker guide to the wines of Bordeaux
Chateau Chasse Spleen - one of the most famous and revered wines of Bordeaux. The farm is located on the edge of Moulis, south of Saint-Julien. In written documents recorded the fact that already in 1560 in the area produce wines.
Chasse-Spleen name means "banish melancholy." Who really is dubbed the wine of Moulis-en-Médoc? Was it the English poet Lord Byron on his way to Spain, which dropped these words: "getting rid of the blues" or in French: "chasser le spleen"? Or perhaps the Frenchman Charles Baudelaire on holiday with his friend Odilon Redon, one of the neighbors and illustrator Chateau "Cplin and ideal» (Spleen et Ideal)? After this trip, Baudelaire wrote one of his poems, "Spleen". It speaks about the virtues of the region Moulis, if the wine was created somewhere else, maybe two of these people would drink a glass and continued their journey. So inspired and well-known names have received several vineyards. Fortunately, Mrs. Casting, which owned farm in those days, listened to one of these famous poets and named the estate Chateau Chasse Spleen. Later she inherited some of the best sites in the Grand Puzho, which, unfortunately, did not have time to assign a classification in 1855, but in 1932 with the introduction of a new classification of wine Chateau Chasse-Spleen awarded Class Grand Cru Exceptionnel.
Farm owned 110 acres, 80 of them - the vineyards, making it the largest in the community.
Chateau Chasse Spleen remained loyal to the traditional technology of wine. Participation in the selection of berries machine - the only concession to modern technology. Malolactic fermentation takes place in concrete or steel tanks for 3-4 weeks, and then the wine is worth 15-18 months in barriques, of which 40% annually updated. Wine is not filtered or after fermentation or before bottling.
