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- Guy Briggs - 02-10-2000
Unable to find any information on this wine (or vinyard). Purchased in St Emilion in 97.Any information, especially on ageing greatly appreciated.
- mrdutton - 02-10-2000
It has been quite a while since I've had a St-Emilion so I'm not going to be much help from personal experience.
It does not appear to be a Premiers Grands Crus Classes or a Grands Crus Classes.
I checked the database at Wine Spectator and could find no reference to it. However, I got the general idea from reading the tasting notes for the 1995 vintage that it is ready to drink now.
Hope that helps a little bit........
- hotwine - 02-21-2000
The AltaVista search engine turned up the following from site www.ryerson.ca/~dtudor/www9596, World Wine Watch's Greatest Hits from August 1995 to December 1996:
Chateau Vieux Clos 1990: Brilliant, with off-dry flavors, $27.65, rated 86.
Personally, I would cellar a St Emilion for at least 10 years. Your '95 is still quite young. The normal cellar rules would apply: quiet, dark, temperature in the mid-50's F, humidity in the mid-60's, with the bottle(s) resting horizontally. Suggest you watch for any evidence of leakage around the cork; for whatever reason, my experience with St Emilions indicates a tendancy to leak. At the first sign of it, drink the wine without further delay. Cheers!