Goosebumps in Bordeaux thread, to cork, by flames

#Harlem_Vintage is on their second wave of ownership. Many moons ago this was the bastion in Harlem as an innovative wine store. Yesterday, I was pouring two styles at the shop. Vin blanc (entre-deux mers) and the Cotes de Bordeaux rising appellation.

It's exceedingly interesting to many analyzing the labels of wines - which is crucial. When one sees Bordeaux on a wine label, is price an implication? Albeit wines can be simply juice, or they can be 'elevage.'

The agency that sent me bares the citchy sudonym (that shall not be named) but you get the idea of a burning desire to get the wines opened. SO i got there, and immediately I was in the tiger's den. The new ownership is young and impassioned. I went ahead an opened the following:

1.  Le Grand Courraye Rouge  - Cotes de Castillion
2.  Dom. Grand Jean - Entre-deux-mers Blanc
And among others
3.  Dom. Le Tour Puyblanquet 2015

All in all, the wines were serviceable. These are the nether regions of Bordeaux - between and along the rivers, not truly the 'wines on demand.'

White wine in Bordeaux is overshadowed.  People enjoy seduction, but never do they think 'priming.' Elegant white Bordeaux, such as Domaine Grand Jean (Sauvignon Blanc/Semillion) is dry, and minerally. It is an appetitive that is subtle and palatte swelling.

The rouges were quaffable - and saying this in Harlem people thought I was speaking 'tongues.'  I mentioned earlier Cotes de Bordeaux, the countryside of the region. In Castillon there was a castle, owned by a German/Spaniard....anyone non-roman. And these wines are in fact Cabernet Frank. Hearty, oncuous, and smathered raspberry.

 Essentially, the wines...at vintage Harlem, were a success. And never for once consider certain 'clienteles' to shy from dry or sophisticated wine. Very little are people aware that the region of Bordeaux is simply drama - and the drama is in the flames of the vines, and the candles that some producers live by in cellars giving air and breadth to the wines.