CHÂTEAU
HAUT BONNEAU
APPELLATION MONTAGNE SAINT EMILION CONTRÔLEE Vin du Vieux Continent
Château La Croix des Ducs - Bordeaux
Year 2004
Merlot dominates this vintage, whose fruity and meaty flavour can be quickly appreciated. Another facet of the great Bordeaux wines, for those who favour fullness.
With duck with cherries or with olives, pork with prunes, pork spare ribs with caramel and spices, West Indian sausage with apples, steak in wine sauce, provençal casserole.
Year 2003
This 100% Merlot has a deep, glowing colour with glints of youth.
A nose of red fruits with attractive and discreet spicy touches. It is supple and melts in your mouth with ripe tannins, all of which give a wine made for pleasure.
With roast veal with mushrooms, pork chops with rosemary, calve’s kidney kebabs, calve’s liver with raspberry vinegar, roast chicken, Camembert, Brie.
A few tips
This wine can be drunk quite young. Even so, with regards to the older vintages you might still have in your cellar, the 1999 and 2002 should already have been drunk. The 2000 and 2001 vintages will have reached their best at the end of this year. Drink them up!
The 2003 and 2004 are really good examples of this wine. The fruit, suppleness and roundness make for a good friend to drink and drink again! Of course, some people will try to let some bottles age – so choose the 2001 or 2003. Happy tasting!
(September 2006)
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