Chateau Lagrange Saint-Julien 2005 web-published light and round

light and round

with enough lift and pepper-spice to keep things lively

It's an even split of Chardonnay

the way it was done a century ago

Chateau Lagrange Saint-Julien 2005 web-published light and roundSaint Julien Third Growth Chateau Lagrange has been owned by Suntory since 1983, and decades of patient investment show in the consistency of the wines. The 2005 was born of one of Bordeaux's truly classical great vintages ripe but cool, structured but precise. Now twenty years on, it's settling into a beautiful drinking window: the primary fruit has folded into leather, cedar, and tobacco, the tannins are silky, and the structure still gives it years