This Bordeaux from Lalande de Pomerol has 13.5% alcohol and scored 16+ points on the 20-point Dionysian scale. 2010 Clos des Trois Croix is 100% Merlot and has soft tannins, a black currant and blueberry nose.
The 2010 vintage produced excellent wines all over Bordeaux and I expected this one to have a good body, be balanced and have a lingering aftertaste. It did. The wine could have easily been cellared for a decade, maybe two.
Like Pomerol, this Lalande de Pomerol, the appellation just north of Pomerol is based on the Merlot grape.
This is classic food wine. Costing $20, it was was served with a lamb-based dish that Joanne made from a few recipes. Dionysians Vince and Susie Winterling helped me review a series of Bordeaux recently, and I thank these Dionysian members for their help. In vino veritas.
Fresh salad included pear chunks, green & yellow string beans, the last of the season, and lamb patty mixed with Feta cheese and chives topped with yogurt & cucumber mix over a think slice of Jersey tomato. It screamed for Bordeaux.
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