Meza Wine Club: October 2025
Discovery Red / Red
Wine 1: Chateau German Castillion Cotes de Bordeaux
Bordering Saint-Émilion, Castillon enjoys the same growing conditions and sandy, gravelly soils. But lacking the status of its neighbor, Castillon wines are less expensive and worth exploring for great values in good vintages like 2020. Chateau German’s 2020 is made from 70% Merlot, 20% Cabernet and 10% Cabernet Franc. Its aromas slowly open to show blackberry and currant with a touch of cedar. Medium bodied, its solid dark fruit along with floral and herbal flavors are supported by youthful, velvety tannin and light oak. Balanced and taut, it captures all the right stuff that people look for in Right Bank wines. It will get even better with short term cellaring.
Wine 2: Bululu Garnacha
100% Garnacha from old, gobelet-pruned vines in granitic sand at extremely high altitude (1007 meters) in the Sierra de Gredos outside of Madrid. Fermented and aged for 12 months in concrete tanks before bottling with minimal sulfur to emphasize the freshness and purity of the fruit. (The name “Bululú” refers to an actor skilled in mimicry who, in times past, would travel from town to town, playing many parts on their own. (This is itself a reference to one of the old meanings of the word “garnacha”– a Baroque-era traveling theater troupe.) This wine showcases the harmony between fruit and purity and freshness.
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