More on Chateau Goubau

To come back to this Chateau Goubau. We tasted both of their red wines (2007 vintage) and both (the entry level La Source and and the more advanced Chateau Goubau) are wonderful to drink right now, but can both age a few years, and have quite some complexity in both aromas and taste. Both wines are aged in large wooden casks which brings them finesse, but not too much of wooden taste.
If you know the prices (7Euro and 10Euro respectively), this is almost too good to be true.

Talking to the owner at the winetasting of wineworld.be we learned some more about their vineyard and the appellation in general (which I don't remember drinking before, but that could be my memory misleading me ...)
Cotes de Castillon is next to the famous (and thus much more expensive) Saint-Emilion. In fact the city centre of Saint Emilion is only 10km from the vineyard, and the grounds that can still call their wine Saint Emillion are only 2km away (Which can be a lot in terroir difference though).

Back from rose country ...

Hello there, I just returned from two weeks of very relaxing holiday in the country of the Rose ... the French VAR region, in the middle of the Cote de Provence AOC where we stayed for two week in a wonderful house with pool that we rented.

Of course we drank a lot wines (also white and red) and I will surely blog about some of the highlights in the coming days and weeks. Quantity wise we probably had most of the dirt cheap rose en vrac that we buy at the local Les Caves Du Commandeur store in Salernes.
This rose en vrac only costs about 1.4€ (per liter), but as there are no packaging costs (bring your own container ...) it can compete with roses that maybe cost 4€ (per 0,75l) in the supermarket.