Chateau Le Bon Pasteur, Pomerol, 1998
Le Bon Pasteur in the Rolland-family era. For decades this Pomerol estate was the home base — and the calling card — of Michel Rolland, the celebrity oenologist who consulted around the world from his perch here; the family sold to Hong Kong's Goldin Financial Group in 2013, but the 1998 vintage is pure Rolland-era Bon Pasteur. And what a vintage to be: 1998 was a phenomenal year on the Right Bank, the kind that produced wines built for the long haul. Twenty-seven years on, the 1998 is fully mature, opulent in that classical Rolland-Pomerol way — dried black plum, fig, cocoa, truffle, sweet tobacco, leather, mocha — with the unctuous Merlot texture now silken and the tannins resolved. A library Pomerol drinking at its full peak. Drink over the next several years; decant briefly.
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Le Bon Pasteur in the Rolland-family era. For decades this Pomerol estate was the home base — and the calling card — of Michel Rolland, the celebrity oenologist who consulted around the world from his perch here; the family sold to Hong Kong's Goldin Financial Group in 2013, but the 1998 vintage is pure Rolland-era Bon Pasteur. And what a vintage to be: 1998 was a phenomenal year on the Right Bank, the kind that produced wines built for the long haul. Twenty-seven years on, the 1998 is fully mature, opulent in that classical Rolland-Pomerol way — dried black plum, fig, cocoa, truffle, sweet tobacco, leather, mocha — with the unctuous Merlot texture now silken and the tannins resolved. A library Pomerol drinking at its full peak. Drink over the next several years; decant briefly.
