Château Le Grand Verdus GlouGlou 2020
Price: $15.95 (reduced from $17.95)
Channel: LCBO Vintages
Producer: Château Le Grand Verdus
Country: France
Region: Bordeaux (Entre-deux-Mers)
Appellation: Bordeaux Supériore AOC
Grapes: Merlot (80%), Cabernet Sauvignon (20%)
Alcohol by Volume: 13.5%
Sugar Content: 3 grams per litre
I don’t know how I missed this wine when it was released a few onths ago, and I don’t why it hasn’t sold out. It’s delicious, very fairly priced (even before the discount), and from one of the world’s most famous producing regions. There’s nothing weird about it. If you poured me a glass and told me it was from a Right Bank Cru Bourgeois at twice the price, I’d still think it was a good deal.
Maybe Bordeaux is its own worst enemy? Regular wine drinkers may have given up on it as the classified labels hit stratospherically high prices over the last thirty years. That’s too bad because the region makes a lot of wine; as much as all the other French regions put together. (Except maybe Champagne.) In any event there are lots of well made orfinairy Clarets in the $20 range.
Maybe the name put people off? Glou glou (glug glug) is a relatively recently coined French slang for easy drinking, casual wines. No problem there, but it’s often associated with more edgy natural wines. Maybe that scared off Bordeaux drinkers with more traditional tastes?
In any event, lets do right by this poor abandonned wine that’s big with blackberry and black currant fruit held well together by firm tannins that, at fives years, are disolving gently into food firedly acidity. Your grilled steak will thank you for it.
https://www.lcbo.com/en/chateau-le-grand-verdus-glouglou-merlot-cabernet-40366