Chateau Chasse-Spleen Moulis en Medoc 2018 CRV5 Estate-grown blue agave thrives in

Estate-grown blue agave thrives in the region's iconic iron-rich crimson soil

dried pineapple

The entry taste gives an impression of moderate age and medium-level oakiness

gravelly loam

Chateau Chasse-Spleen Moulis en Medoc 2018 CRV5 Estate-grown blue agave thrives inChateau 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,