Chateau Phelan Segur Saint-Estephe 2016 SF Chronicle - Past Pick or leave it alone for

or leave it alone for a few years and be rewarded

melted tannins and red-fruit aromatics make it effortlessly food-friendly

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

Old Fitzgerald's wheated bourbon recipe (using wheat instead of rye as the secondary grain) produces a softer

galangal and vanilla

Chateau Phelan Segur Saint-Estephe 2016 SF Chronicle - Past Pick or leave it alone forPhlan 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