1995 Château Greysac is a Cru Bourgeois from the Medoc region, in Bordeaux, France. More details on this Château can be found here – it seems their own website is out of service. It is one of the more basic Bordeaux wines, so one should not expect miracles. Also, its price tag is modest. But I would not go as far as Robert Parker, who wrote – back in 1996, when the wine was obviously still extremely young – “Slightly riper and softer than the 1994, but also an ungenerous, light-bodied wine lacking fruit“. He then gave it a shocking 78-80 points 😜 – today, this would be a death sentence for any wine! In the mid-90s, Robert Parker himself was still quite direct and without any attempt to please – honesty prevailed. That had its advantages, really. Today, every wine seems to earn a high number of points. And this is often not justified.
The 1995 Château Greysac, however, with its 28 years of age, doesn’t seem old. It is quite alive, showing red fruit (redcurrant, cherry) with some spicy aromas in the nose (and not “lacking fruit”, as Robert Parker stated). The tannins are nicely integrated. It seems that it paid off that I have waited quite a long time to open this bottle, that had been forgotten in my cellar (I had purchased it en primeur in 1996). It harmonised very well with my Ossobuco and polenta that I made. TBM 85-86 points.
