An easy weeknight pour from a name worth knowing before everyone else does
though it's drinking well now
or nothing but a quiet evening and a wide glass
Faint aromas of peanut shells
crafted from the estate’s best vineyard plots
Chateau Larrivaux, Haut-Medoc, 2019 Clusel Roch 2021 An easy weeknight pour fromA charming, history soaked Haut Medoc from Chateau Larrivaux, an estate handed down the female line of the same family since 1580, one of the oldest continuous ownerships in the Medoc. It sits in Cissac, at the gates of Saint Estephe, on gravelly soils, now overseen by Berengere Tesseron of the Lafon Rochet family. The blend leads with Merlot (around 70%) over Cabernet Sauvignon, making it a softer, earlier drinking claret. 2019 was an excellent