Domaine de L'Eglise, Pomerol, 1995 vintage-favorites and Crozes

and Crozes

From the Loire's volcanic Côte Roannaise appellation

There's tension and grip here

and dark fruit

given the same uncompromising treatment as the famous Vigna San Giuseppe Riserva: long maceration

Domaine de L'Eglise, Pomerol, 1995 vintage-favorites and CrozesThirty years on, this is a Pomerol at full maturity the kind of bottle you open with a meal and a couple of patient friends. Domaine de l'glise is one of the oldest estates in Pomerol (dating to 1589) and sits in the literal shadow of the village church. The Castja family acquired it in the early 1970s and the wine is still distributed by their ngociant house, Borie Manoux. The vineyard is Merlot dominant (with a small splash of Cabernet Franc) on