Chasse-Spleen

Specification

Producer

Chasse-Spleen

Region

Bordeaux

Where

Moulis-en-Médoc, Bordeaux

Classification

Moulis-en-Médoc AOC

Grapes

Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot

Vintage

1996

Case

75cl

Held at

Wine Tunnels, London City Bond (in bond)

Code

CHASPL961X75

About this wine

Chasse-Spleen is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot with a little Petit Verdot, from Moulis-en-Médoc. It is a full, firm and dark-fruited claret with good tannic structure. It needs some years in bottle to soften and in good vintages ages well for twenty years.

About Chasse-Spleen

Château Chasse-Spleen is in Moulis-en-Médoc, a small appellation inland from Margaux and Listrac. Its name, roughly 'chase away melancholy', is linked by tradition to the poet Lord Byron and to Baudelaire.

Owned by the Villars-Merlaut family, it has long been regarded as one of the leading unclassified estates of the Médoc, often compared with the classed growths for quality. Its gravel and clay-limestone soils give a well-structured, long-lived claret.