Château Phélan Ségur Saint-Estèphe 2020

I put three bottles of this on a rack in a cellar I built in Tarrytown last month. The client picked it up at my suggestion and called me two days later asking where to find more. That is Phélan Ségur. It is not a classified growth. Got left off the 1855 list for reasons that had more to do with politics than wine. The estate sits between Montrose and Calon-Ségur in Saint-Estèphe and the 2020 tastes like it belongs in that company. Dark cassis, graphite, pencil shavings, cedar. The tannins are firm but they do not fight you. Give it 5-10 years and it opens into something that makes you forget what you paid. Here is the math. At $40-55 this is one of the last Bordeaux that still makes sense for the money. The tariff plus distributor markups pushes it north of $60 by summer. At that point you are paying Napa Cab prices for a wine that needs a decade. A case now is smart. Six months from now it is a regret.