Saint Emilion with no year on the label....

If there's no year, it's going to be a cheap drink-as-soon-as-possible sort of wine.

In general that is true, but there is no obligation to declare a vintage on AOC wines. You CAN have a good non-vintage wine.

Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France email link

] On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 19:02:40 +0100, Steve Slatcher ] wrote: ] ] >On 6 Apr 2005 10:37:54 -0700, snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com (Dave) wrote: ] >

] >>a Grand Vin de Bordeaux Saint Emilion - a Pierre Jean from the ] >>Saint-Christophe des Bardes vineyards in Gironde. Trying to find out ] >>a little more about it. Need any further info, please let me know. ] >

] >If there's no year, it's going to be a cheap drink-as-soon-as-possible ] >sort of wine. ] ] In general that is true, but there is no obligation to declare a ] vintage on AOC wines. You CAN have a good non-vintage wine. ]

Indeed. Vallouit made a terrific St Joseph from the '91 vintage, labelled "Les Anges" with no year. I think it was a special for a cruise line. Whatever, it was very good.

Not that I disagree with Steve about the St Em. :)

-E

A little research suggests that this is probably the wine

I lovingly recall some non-vintage Chateau Margaux coming into California and Canada in the late '60's...

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