I was back at The Fine Wine Source in Livonia, Michigan for another wine tasting and this time it was all wines from the Bordeaux region and eleven of the twelve wines were from the 2022 vintage. 

The first wine of the tasting was Chateau Marjosse Bordeaux Blanc Entre-Deux-Mers 2021 and as I mentioned, this was the only non-2022 vintage of the tasting. Their signature wine is a white wine, and they also produce a red with a Bordeaux AOC.  The chateau is owned by Pierre Lurton, who is also the managing director of Chateau Cheval Blanc and Chateau d’Yquem.  He began winemaking there for the Deleuze family in 1990 when the estate had twelve hectares, and later after some other commitments he bought the estate in 2013 and began upgrading almost immediately.  The estate is now sixty-five hectares, and the white wine vines average over thirty-five years of age.  The wine is forty-five percent Sauvignon Blanc, forty-five percent Semillon, and a ten percent blend of Sauvignon Gris and Muscadelle.  The grounds are sloping hillsides that rise to about sixty meters on sand with clay and limestone.  The juice in vinified in temperature controlled egg-shaped cement vats and used five-hundred-liter oak barrels.  The wine is a pale straw-yellow colored wine that offers notes of green apple, grapefruit, citrus, and white flowers.  On the palate tones of green apple and grapefruit that are bright and crisp; very youthful and alive and refreshing.  

The second wine and the start of the red wines and the 2022 vintages, was featuring Chateau Marjosse Bordeaux Rouge 2022.  While the estate is in the Entre-Deux-Mers region of Bordeaux, traditionally the reds carry the Bordeaux appellation. The Chateau is owned by Pierre Lurton who is also the managing director of Chateau Cheval Blanc and Chateau d’Yquem.  He began winemaking at Marjosse in 1990, he eventually bought the property in 2013.  The estate began at twelve hectares and is now sixty-five hectares, and he has also renovated the vineyards, the winery and the stone manor house; the red vines average about twenty-five years in age.  The wine is a blend of seventy-five percent Merlot, ten percent Cabernet Franc, ten percent Cabernet Sauvignon and five percent Malbec.  A deep purple wine that offered notes of black currants, black cherries, blackberries, mulberries and a slight trace of florals.   On the palate this medium bodied wine displayed tones of black fruits, well-balanced with ripe tannins, and the finish was a medium count length and ending with juicy fruit and fruit forward.

We then tasted Chateau La Tour de Bessan Margaux 2022 from Marie-Laure Lurton and officially known as Societe Civile Grands Crus Reunis.  A wine company based in the Medoc was founded in 1992 by Marie-Laure Lurton and it comprises two properties: Chateau La Tour de Bessan in Margaux and Chateau de Villegeorge in the Haut-Medoc. The two properties were originally purchased by her father Lucien Lurton in the Seventies from Clauzel family.  Chateau La Tour de Bessan dates to the 13^th Century and the fortified tower in Soussans.  The estate has thirty hectares of varying gravel soils and clay in blocks spread out in three communes within Margaux; and the estate earned its Cru Bourgeois classification in 2003.  The wine is a blend of fifty percent Merlot, forty-four percent Cabernet Sauvignon and six percent Petit Verdot; and the average age of the vines are twenty-five years.  The wine undergoes a period of Maceration for about twenty days and then aged in French Oak barrels (of which thirty percent is new) for about fourteen months.  The dark ruby wine offered notes of blackberries, plums, florals, licorice and cedar.  On the palate this medium-bodied wine displayed tones of both black and red fruit blended with fine tannins and a nice medium count finish of fruit and spices.