Lamé Delisle Boucard: Tasting & Drinking
Despite being a committed Loire-o-phile I have always had nagging doubts about the claims made for the red wines of Bourgueil and St Nicolas de Bourgueil. Being emotionally connected to the region and its wines doesn’t mean I believe everything everyone tells me about Bourgueil elixirs from the 1940s or 1950s. I taste a lot of young Bordeaux and you can see in the likes of Château Canon, Château Latour or Château Montrose (picking three châteaux who have made stunning, undeniably ageworthy wines in recent vintages) the concentration and ripe tannic structure that suggests they demand decades, rather than mere years, in the cellar. I also taste a reasonable amount of young Bourgueil (although I could always do with tasting more) and these wines never speak to me in the same way.
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