Chateau Montfollet
How do I buy a Bordeaux wine that I like and that doesn't leave me with a zero balance at the beginning of the month? Try it out.
Since I decided to follow my own taste anyway and have a little weakness for Malbec wines, it was obvious that I went for a Malbec Merlot Cuvée in front of the huge Bordeaux shelf of my wine merchant.
Not exactly the usual type of Bordeaux wines, which mainly contain Cabernet Sauvignon as a blending partner for Merlot. But what used to be often used for blending in the Bordelais and was no longer possible because of the severe frosts in the middle of the last century, as Malbec has a hard time with frost, is now occurring more and more again. The almost black grapes of the Malbec bring tannins and spice as well as hints of tobacco and juniper to the otherwise rather gentle, fruity Merlot.
I liked this wine right away. Its weightiness and the pronounced tannins (the furry stuff ,-) don't even allow food to exist alongside it. No, it should be drunk on its own, savoring each sip consciously and diving further and further into the dark, black world of Malbec, velvety embedded and seduced at the hand of Merlot. A meditation wine.
Chateau Montfollet belongs to the third generation of the Raimond family. Modern cellar techniques are used and on the forty hectares of land with a view of the Gironde, one can say that the work is almost biodynamic. Chateau Montfollet and other producers in Blaye have formed a kind of cooperative to benefit from each other's experience and operate under the name Chateaux Solidaires.
Oh yes. 19.00 euros - Mövenpick wines.