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Desmirail - where art thou?
Patience Waddilove, Dorset: Ch Desmirail: Please excuse a naive question, but I've noticed that the cru bourgeois Ch d'Angludet seems to appear in everyone's lists and tasting notes, but never Ch Desmirail (also Margaux, and also a thirrd growth). Neither your notes nor the recent Decanter tasting summary by Steven Spurrier mentioned it. Tom Stevenson and David Peppercorn speak somewhat kindly of this modest(?) wine in their recent books, and The Wine Society offered the 2001 vintage to members in the last quarter at a respectably low price as a 'drink it young, it's delicate (an aphorism for 'a bit thin'?) but quite Margaux'...
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