Chateau Peybonhomme-Les-Tours Blaye-Côtes de Bordeaux 2019 (375ml)

Description

Château Peybonhomme-Les-Tours is managed by fifth generation growers Catherine and Jean-Luc Hubert. These vignerons break just about every stereotype associated with the very commercial world of today’s Bordeaux: their vineyards are certified biodynamic, their wines are easy drinking young, and they offer outstanding value for money. It’s impossible not to focus on the value presented here, but it also feels somewhat unfair to the wine. They deliver such honest charm and outright quality that to stress the price too much is to underplay the excellence and sheer deliciousness in the bottle.

This classic estate wine is a blend of 75% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc and 10% Malbec. The fruit was grown on Peybonhomme’s limestone and clay soils of the Premières Côtes de Blaye (on the right bank, overlooking the picturesque Gironde estuary). The wine fermented with indigenous yeasts and then matured mostly in concrete, with 10% fermented and aged in two- to three-year-old oak. The wine was bottled unfiltered.

From a year of great balance—and one that had Bordeaux’s upper classes rubbing their hands in glee—2019 is a delicious, vivid release of this wine. Look out for deep, opulent blackcurrant fruit and charred meat, all draped over a backdrop of leather, five spice, cigar box and a lovely mineral complexity. There are good ripe tannins too, but it is already immensely drinkable. This will match beautifully with anything you could think of pairing with traditional Bordeaux. As always, crazy value.

RRP $35   *Our Special Price $31.99 when you buy 6 or more of this wine.  **HALF SIZE BOTTLES – 375 ML**