Chateau Phelan Segur Saint-Estephe 2016 CALIOTHER Etienne de Montille has shifted

Etienne de Montille has shifted the house style toward purity and lift over his late father Hubert's famously austere extraction

He farms organically and mostly leaves the wine alone during elevage

and my olfactory memory has never been so aggressively triggered

No added sulfur was used during the vinification or aging of this wine and no sugar was added during the vinification or at disgorgement

Claude Cazals

Chateau Phelan Segur Saint-Estephe 2016 CALIOTHER Etienne de Montille has shiftedPhlan Sgur is one of Saint Estphe's most reliable estatesan unclassified estate (Phlan Sgur withdrew from the Cru Bourgeois system in 2010) sitting on the Gironde riverbank next door to Montrose. The 2016 carries special significance: it was the final vintage made under the Gardinier family, who had owned and rebuilt the property since 1985 before selling to Belgian investor Philippe Van de Vyvere in 2018. The vintage itself was one of Bordeaux's