Chateau Cherubin, Saint Emilion Grand Cru, 2008

Winemaker Bertrand Bourdil, who made the legendary Mouton-Rothschild 1982 and 1986 vintages left Mouton in 1993 and became a consultant.

He’s retired from that now and concentrates solely on his own wine, Chateau Cherubin that comes from a very special 2.5 hectares of old vines which are sandwiched in the vineyards of Chateau Angelus.

It’s a rare patch of terroir that shares similar attributes to Petrus and La Conseillante with the traces in the soil of crasse de fer, that confers freshness and lift to the wine.

Showcasing the winemakers talent, this wine is suprisingly heady and aromatic, with an brooding bouquet of black and red fruit. Structured on the palate, with air this erupts into an enthralling wine that is at once smooth and crystalline at the same time. Decades left to this, but why wait?