Château de Ségur 1973

The 1973 wine vintage in Bordeaux was a highly successful, good, and incredibly abundant year for quality volume, though it was structurally lighter-bodied and lacked the long-term aging muscle of the monumental 1970 harvest. A warm, exceptionally wet spring and summer caused the vines to produce an enormous crop of rapidly ripening grapes, which was safely brought in before severe autumn rains could trigger widespread rot. The resulting red w...