2005 Château Greysac

Now owned by Jean Guyon, I’m not sure he was the proprietor when this wine was made ten years ago. Nevertheless, Greysac has always been one of my sentimental favorites, having drunk a lot of it in my youthful days. The color of the 2005 is a super-dark, saturated ruby/purple, and the wine offers plenty of sweet fruit, tannin, a hint of underlying crushed rock minerality, and loads of cassis. This is a bigger-than-usual, concentrated and powerful Greysac that should age well for another decade. It is a sleeper of the vintage.