Chateau Chasse-Spleen Moulis en Medoc 2018 080725OFFER and cardamom

and cardamom

then spend five to eight years on lees at cool temperatures

while the wine rests three months in stainless steel before blending

vines planted in 1997

Chateau Chasse-Spleen Moulis en Medoc 2018 080725OFFER and cardamomChateau Chasse Spleen sits at the very top of the unclassified Mdoc tier a Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel that consistently overdelivers against classed growths. The Merlaut Villars family has owned this Moulis estate for decades (today run by Celine Villars Foubet), and the curious name traces back to Baudelaire and Lord Byron's notion of 'le spleen,' the melancholy this wine was supposedly built to chase away. 2018 was a benchmark Mdoc vintage a warm,