Actually, I didn't want to write anything about it. Not because the wine is bad, on the contrary, because everything has already been said or written about it. The paradise chateau "La Louvière" of Lurton's winery empire (the widely ramified family owns about 12 wineries in Bordeaux) is probably known to every wine lover. La Louvière was once an "insider's tip" and - in terms of price/performance - still something of the best that can be found in the Bordelais, although not Bordeaux-like expensive, but rather a safe value to this day. Through it, generations of wine drinkers have found their way to Bordeaux. La Louvière costs - for many years - always slightly adjusted to the vintage price level around 25 CHF (for the 96 I paid 29 CHF in the subscription at that time). It is a wine that always - in every vintage - reaches a good level; you can be sure, so to speak, to have a very good Bordeaux in your glass. Expressed in points, this does not look so great (Gabriel usually around 16/20 points, Parker around 87/100). In purely mathematical terms, not a top wine, but definitely a good wine. In 2000, it even reached 90/100 points (with Parker). And only very rarely (in the last 20 years) did Parker give it less than 87/100 points. But that's not what this is about (for me). It is simply about the
It's simply about the observation my wife spontaneously made at the dinner table just now: "Louvière is always an excellent wine, the best we've had for dinner in the last two weeks". And we had quite a few - also renowned ones - in the glass (see earlier "Drunk"). I don't want to judge and measure which was really the best wine. One could certainly argue about that. But - this is not a strictly sensory analytical statement - "La Louvière" was - and still is - the best in class. That's what it's all about when you pour a wine just for the fun of it, even if it's only on an "ordinary" day, with an "ordinary" meal.