Château Rouget: Tasting & Drinking
One of my earliest encounters with Château Rouget was with the 1988 vintage, at a time when I knew little about the estate. Even at this time the wines were being enthusiastically marketed as from a property ‘on the rise’ even though this was four years before the Labruyère family acquired the estate and began the great revitalisation which set the property on its current upwards trajectory. I thought the wine smart enough, even if it did show some evolved hung game and beef stock complexity, with a green twist for good measure. It seemed to be drinking pretty well at more than fifteen years of age, but I would not have trusted it to the cellar any longer.
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