Château Dassault: Tasting & Drinking
The style of the wines at Château Dassault is undoubtedly modern, and this may to some extent be influenced by their consultant oenologist, Michel Rolland. Certainly, in their youth, they tend towards a very plush, bold, broad and textured style, with plenty of extract and not uncommonly a fairly significant concentration of alcohol. The 2015 barrel sample tasted at the primeurs, for example, was touted as having 15% alcohol, a figure which may of course have been rounded up, or down. It is not a style, at least at this stage, that always appeals to me.
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