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Chateau Segur 1998 This is — according to chickens & Feret — a Cru Bourgeois Superieur - and is the first wine — the second is Domaine Boisgrand and there is a marque wine, Ch. Ségur-Fillon. The vineyard is planted with 42% Merlot, CS 35% CF 17%, pebreast Verdot 6% on Garonnes gravel. All the wine is barrel aged for 18 to 24 months, 30% to 40% in new oak. Given the quality of the vineyard — a Cru Bourgeois Superieur — and its position I would have said that it would probably be ready to drink bu the extensive use of oak makes me wonder if it would not benefit from a year or two more. 1998 was, on the whole, a far better year for the Right Bank and the Merlot on higher ground than the Left from which this comes. You can be sure that while it might improve over the next couple of years or more drinking it now will be an interesting learning experience. If you can fid the same wine from a different year or years and open the two together — a short vertical tasting in effect — that experience will be heightened and you will begin to see the influence of grower and terroir and that of the year. HTH — whatever you do, enjoy the wine or the learning experience or both! Timothy Hartley
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