08/28/2026
🚨 A Top 3 Red Wine For Me This Year 🚨
2022 Chateau Haut Troquart La Grâce Dieu Saint Emilion Grand Cru
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It's my 16th wedding anniversary today, so I'm breaking open a bottle of honestly what is one of the top 3 red wines I've had this year...and it kinda came out of nowhere.
We knew we loved it when we tried it for the first time at Wine Paris back in February, but when I re-tried it 3 weeks ago it was absolutely FIRING. I almost finished the entire bottle myself (this is a judgement free zone folks!)
So what can I tell you about this EPIC wine?
Every year at the largest wine trade show in France, we spend a good amount of time just wandering. What are we looking for? Iconic packaging. We’ve had good luck in seeking out wineries that spend a lot of time thinking about their packaging…as they often spend just as much, if not more time, thinking about the wine that goes inside. It doesn’t always hold up that way, but it does more often than not.
This year, we had one absolutely epic find…Chateau Le Grace Dieu…and the story about how the winery came to be is almost as epic as the wine itself.
This wine?!?!
Single vineyard, 5 acre parcel of Merlot. It's raised in 100% new French oak, and not from a single cooper. They select barrels from multiple tonnelleries each vintage, matching the oak's grain and toast level to the character of that specific year. That is a Grand Cru Classé practice being applied to a five-acre plot by a family of farmers.
The estate calls it une cuvée confidentielle. I love secret wines 😂
You can read the entire estate story by clicking the link in the profile or going here: https://mailchi.mp/winestore-online/hauttroquart-aug2026-105235
I know what I'm drinking tonight!
TGIF!