Chateau Segur 1998?

Welcome Bastian,

I am not familiar with Chateau Ségur, but the Cru Bourgeois is a bit of clue as to the placement in the hierarchy of Bdx. If you call the classified growths as the top 5-10% of the Bdx wines, then you have a very large group of Cru Bourgeois making up around the next 20%. Within that group, there are basically three classifications: Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel (maybe 5%), Cru Bourgeois Superieur (maybe 30%), then the rest is simply Cru Bourgeois. I do not know how 1998 was for St-Estèphe, but considering that this wine is somewhat near the "middle" of the Bdx production, it will probably not be great. However, it might well be a very enjoyable wine, as most Cru Bourgeois, regardless of hierarchy, are. I hope someone knows this wine and is familiar with the '98 vintage, to give you an idea of wheter it is a hold, or drink-now wine. I'd lean, out of ignorance, to drinking it now, but see what others say, in case this happened to be a tannic monster, needing a few more years to develop beyond its lineage.

Hunt

A few more clues...

In the last classification Chateau Ségur is a Cru Bourgeois Superieur, and is from Parempuyre in Haut-Médoc. Not St-Estèphe - were you confusing with Phélan Ségur maybe, Hunt?

Otherwise I can find nothing about it. Nothing on wine-searcher.com for example.

Would the "Ancienne Seigneurie des Comtes de Ségur" suggest it is a

A couple of charts I have just suggest 98 Medocs may still be too young for drinking now.

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My Ch. Beychevelle -98 was certainly very young last week. I'd hold that two years. The Segure might be ready, but I don't know it. Anders

Yes, obviously too many Ségurs for me . That is probably where I got the idea that it was just a Cru Bourgeois, not Superieur. Thanks for the clarification. Heck, Bastian even listed Haut-Médoc in the post - note to self, read ALL the data, not just some of it.

Sounds like Bastian's wine may have just gotten better. See, I told him to not drink it tonight, until others had logged in on his wine. Thanks for the correction.

Hunt