2019 | Château Lafon-Rochet | Saint-Estèphe | France Soul of the Sensei and raspberries

and raspberries

This is one step up from the previous years

as well as a seam of chalky minerality

A dry German rose — pale and zippy with red berries

juicy Douro red — bright red and dark fruit

2019 | Château Lafon-Rochet | Saint-Estèphe | France Soul of the Sensei and raspberriesFourth Growth St Estphe between Cos and Lafite classic, muscular Bordeaux in a great vintage, half bottle format. Chteau Lafon Rochet is a Fourth Growth (1855) sitting on choice St Estphe gravel between Cos d'Estournel and Lafite Rothschild, long owned by the Tesseron family of Cognac and Pontet Canet fame. The 2019 is classic Lafon Rochet monolithic, muscular, Cabernet driven from one of the decade's benchmark Left Bank vintages, in a convenient