Chateau Phelan Segur Saint-Estephe 2016 SF Chronicle - Past Pick and structured enough to pair

and structured enough to pair with food that few lighter whites could handle

Nose :Fig and apricot with a rare hint of banana

País was Chile's grape for four hundred years before anybody turned up with Cabernet — brought by missionaries

returning to an era that saw heavy-bodied rye whisky served at bars and saloons throughout America

galangal and vanilla

Chateau Phelan Segur Saint-Estephe 2016 SF Chronicle - Past Pick and structured enough to pairPhlan Sgur is one of Saint Estphe's most reliable estatesan unclassified estate (Phlan Sgur withdrew from the Cru Bourgeois system in 2010) sitting on the Gironde riverbank next door to Montrose. The 2016 carries special significance: it was the final vintage made under the Gardinier family, who had owned and rebuilt the property since 1985 before selling to Belgian investor Philippe Van de Vyvere in 2018. The vintage itself was one of Bordeaux's