The Saint-Emilion area benefited from its location on the pilgrimage ... It is an exceptional landscape devoted entirely to wine-growing, with many fine historic monuments in its towns and villages.

It's fleshier and ripens earlier than Cabernet, resulting in softer wines with plush tannins and fruit. Bordeaux is the grape's native home, where it's the dominant grape in Right Bank appellations ...

Their own Grand Cru Saint-Emilion sells for closer to $60 ... It's a good start and it gets even better as it breathes. Tasting the wine reveals it to be quite smooth and slightly tannic with ...