Bordeaux 2018 – St-Estèphe

This northernmost of the four most famous communes in the Haut-Médoc typically has more underlying clay than the other three, as well as plenty of gravel, so the soils tend to be cooler, later ripening and better able to cope with a long dry period such as the three-month spell in late summer 2018 (see part 1 of my overview for more details, and see the rather good St-Estèphe website for ...