Château Lassègue: Tasting & Drinking
Finding mention of the St Emilion appellation on a label provides no real guidance as to style, or indeed quality. Few appellations really guide as to quality of course (even with all their classification systems), so in this St Emilion is not in itself unusual. But to offer no real guide to style either is less common. On encountering an unfamiliar Pauillac, or St Julien, we immediately have some idea of how it should taste, but with St Emilion this simply isn’t possible.
First are foremost, there is too much variation in terroir. In this matter it reminds me somewhat of Savennières, which also has high quality terroir of schist, perhaps analogous to the limestone and clay of St Emilion, as well as wind-blown sands, and there are obvious parallels here with the wind-blown and alluvial sands along the length of the Dordogne.
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