The colour is deep ruby. Not showing any sign of ageing yet. On the nose dark cherries, plums, forest, and some chocolatey and smokey notes. In the mouth very elegant, with well-integrated tannins and a good acidity. The aftertaste is delicious and last for quite a while.
Château Phélan Ségur is located in the Saint-Estèphe region of Bordeaux. It once belonged to Nicolas-Alexandre Marquis de Ségur, who also owned Latour, Lafite, Mouton, and Calon Ségur. The 2009 vintage is a blend of 58% Caberent Sauvignon, 40% Merlot and 2% Cabernet Franc.
Château Phélan Ségur is the first good Bordeaux wine I remember drinking in my life. It was offered to me by my father some twenty years ago. It is also the wine that the sommelier of the Hôtel de Paris in Monte-Carlo suggested to me when I dined there with a client in 2002.
I therefore have a kind of emotional attachment to this wine, which may influence my enthusiastic judgement. Unfortunately, this was the only Château Phélan Ségur 2009 I had left in my wine cellar. I enjoyed this last bottle as much as the few I drank some years ago, when the wine was already drinking beautifully in its youth.
I recently read a quote of James Suckling saying that “a 90-point wine is a wine that you want to drink the whole glass right away, 95 points or more, you want to finish the bottle yourself.” According to these principles, I would personally give this Crus Bourgeois 95 points or more.
For this bottle I paid 41 CHF in 2014. It now sells is Switzerland for almost double the price.
Country: France
Region: Bordeaux
Grapes: Caberent Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc
Type: Red
Vintage: 2009
Producer: Château Phélan Ségur
Price range: Premium (30-50 US$)
Pascal’s Enjoyment Index: 4/5