Château Barreyres Haut Médoc Cru Bourgeois 2010

My wife bought this red Bordeaux in a Carrefour supemarket last weekend on our trip to Normandy. And it is a very fine wine for the money. How come I can spend years studying wine and my wife can just show up at the supermarket and find a good bottle for about 12 Eur? Perhaps my wine education was wasted.

This wine won a silver medal at the Vinalies Internationales and I am not surprised by this. This 2010 wine is ready for drinking now but it can be kept for a lot longer. The vines are grown on clay soils with gravel in the Haut-Medoc. - 50% Cabernet Sauvignon and 50% Merlot. The tannins are softening nicely and the wine has the aroma of red and black fruits typical of the region.

http://www.chateau-barreyres.com/pdf/Barreyres_Fiche_09_GB.pdf

It has all the hallmarks of a very good wine at a very reasonable price. We drank it with a
Côte de Bœuf cooked on a barbecue. The beef came from the same supermarket and it was superb. How come we cannot get meat of such quality in British Supermarkets?

Anyway I digress, you can buy this wine in in the UK and it is worth searching out but of course it will cost you 12 GBP rather than 12 EUR. This is genuine good quality wine which tastes as if it was made with care and with respect for the climate and terroir of the region.

You could pay twelve pounds just to drink industrialised and homogenised wine which could come from anywhere. So, why not try Château Barreyres  to find out what good wine making is really about.