Domaine Les Chagnasses, Lalande-de-Pomerol

If you have any interest in experiencing the golden age of Bordeaux, Domaine Les Chagnasses’ mature, cellar-direct offering is your obtainable white whale. This rarefied bottle contains everything that gives Bordeaux its unending allure: extraordinary vintage, location, evolution, and value. Let’s start with the vintage.There’s really nothing else like 2010 Bordeaux, an immortalized growing season that lifted many properties to a truly magical, out-of-this-world state. Critics labeled it “vintage of the century” and “best ever” right out of the gate, and 12 years on, these powerful, silky, unabashedly delicious wines have been further idolized. So, yes, 2010 Bordeaux deserves all the praise that’s been heaped upon it. Then there’s the unbelievable location: Chagnasses’ micro-cuvée comes from a two-hectare vineyard (rooted in Pomerol’s sandy, iron-tinged clay) that’s less than a mile away from $6,000 Château Pétrus! As for the impeccable evolution of today’s wine, this has blossomed int