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Photo_51 copyThe second wine of Château Monbousquet bears the name of the daughter of Gérard Perse, the "child prodigy" from Paris, who came to Saint Emilion 25 years ago as a career changer and is still making trouble there. The ambitious businessman - once the owner of a supermarket chain - wanted to become a winemaker and probably had the necessary small change. In the meantime, he owns five renowned wine estates (perhaps already one more, who knows for sure?): Château Monbousquet - it was his first purchase -, five years later Château Pavie, whose wines are now more than ten times more expensive (subscription price from 200 francs), Château Pavie-Decesse, Château La Clussière, which no longer exists because it has been integrated into Château Pavie, Clos les Lunelles (Castillon). Monbousquet cannot be compared to Pavie (neither in price nor in quality), but Monbousquet cannot deny the wine-intent of Gérard Perse: extremely dense, rich, fruity, spicy. Is the second wine (mostly from younger vines) also like this?Saint Emilion

This is the first time I have had it in my glass - and probably the last time, because this wine will no longer be available. Part of Château Monbousquet has been sold and the grapes from which Angélique was made will now go into "Esprit de Pavie", Pavie's second wine. This not only makes it easier to market, but also helps to circumvent the complicated inheritance laws in France wherever possible.

The wine - I admit it - did not excite me much. Clean, pleasing, even a bit well-behaved, without any special character, without the dense aromas found in the first wine. For twenty francs (that's how much the wine costs), you can find better wines everywhere - even in Bordeaux - but hardly any wines with a more illustrious name. The otherwise so expansive bouquet of Perse wines is not even rudimentary here. Somewhere I came across it - accompanied by Chinese characters - under the title "Everyday Bordeaux". Obviously, it is (or was) aimed at a market that has little to do with Bordeaux - especially with the Grand Cru Bordeaux - but rather with its good name. In any case, my everyday wine life looks different, has much more taste, and also much more passion.

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