2005 Ch. Cantenac Climat

I didn't have particularly high expectations for this St. Emilion but chanced on it in the cellar and thought it might be time to take a look at it, particularly as it is mostly Merlot. It was a very pleasant surprise. Some nice herbal elements and smokiness on the nose, good colour, clean ample fruit and some mushroom on palate, all in all quite agreeable.

To be drunk over the middle term.(but my cellar is at 13 C., so maybe sooner for those with warmer cellars).

[Jenise]

I opened a 2001 Beau-Sejeur Becot earlier this week based on similar reasoning but didn't get lucky.

Yeah - always a bit of a crapshoot unless you know the property well. You pays your money and you takes your chances.