(Chateau de Hureau "Les Fevettes") This is their "1er Cru" wine per se. They make a "Village" wine, the "Les Fevettes" and the Grand Cru "Cuvee Lisagathe." The nose was promising with nice raspberry confit notes, tweed and lots of earthy mineral. The palate was rich, velvety and full of concentrated fleshy fruit. But there was a certain something lacking in the mid-palate and there also was alot of heat in this wine that continues right now as I sip it. It shows in a medicinal/ethanol type of heat. Maybe it needs age but usually heat does not go away. The tannins are there and the wine is balanced but the flavors and heat take away alot from this wine. Oh well you cannot win them all.
By Lyle Fass
(Chateau de Hureau "Les Fevettes") This is their "1er Cru" wine per se. They make a "Village" wine, the "Les Fevettes" and the Grand Cru "Cuvee Lisagathe." The nose was promising with nice raspberry confit notes, tweed and lots of earthy mineral. The palate was rich, velvety and full of concentrated fleshy fruit. But there was a certain something lacking in the mid-palate and there also was alot of heat in this wine that continues right now as I sip it. It shows in a medicinal/ethanol type of heat. Maybe it needs age but usually heat does not go away. The tannins are there and the wine is balanced but the flavors and heat take away alot from this wine. Oh well you cannot win them all.6/12/2007, (See more on Rockss and Fruit...)