Featured Wines - October 1999

The brilliant color of the 1997 Domaine du Rey Cotes de Gascogne makes the wine attractive from the start. Its powerful nose recalls exotic fruits, grapefruit and melon and the scent of blooming woodlands. Medium to full-bodied in the mouth, this Cotes de Gascogne bursts with fruit (not residual sugar) before it reveals a bracing acidity that provides freshness and definition, as well as a long, harmonious finish. It is best served chilled and co...

A saturated, purple potion, the 1996 Chateau St. Paul is a deep, rich Bordeaux with plenty of fruit, character, and tannin. A bit closed and brooding at the moment, several hours in a decanter reveal the classic scents of Bordeaux: blackberry, cassis, cedar, coffee and chocolate. Pure and rich in flavor, this wine is just beginning to shed the substantial layer of tannin that overlaps the wine’s lush center. Like all fine Bordeaux, (wines from th...