By: Simon Roberts
A visit to Phoenix this weekend has me drinking some great wines. The standouts have both been Bordeaux right bank wines, but very different in style. A great buy four years ago for our Graileys members was the 2000 vintage of Chateau Bel-Aire Ouy’. If you still have this wine in your cellar I would suggest popping a bottle, it is drinking exceptionally well. It has perfect balance of fruit and is punching way above it’s weight, this has turned out to be a very astute buy back in the day, as was the 2006 Le Bon Pasteur from Pomerol. This was another find that we offered a few years back and patience has paid off with this wine, it has a killer nose of blueberry pie, with a deep mid palate, cedar, vanilla and toasty oak dominate and it has a lingering , pleasurable finish.. A very good Merlot based wine that was a great buy for those who bought. We have some big guns coming out tonight at a clients house but if they are any near as good as these two we will be in for a treat.