Chateau Chasse-Spleen Moulis en Medoc 2018 Wine Bar | Sparkling & Cider Cabernet Franc has quietly become

Cabernet Franc has quietly become one of Washington's most compelling varieties

yet refined enough to awaken the season

fermented with indigenous yeasts and raised mostly in barrel with only a whisper of new oak

COLOR: Silver tequila

with the crackling acidity that makes Chablis the most refreshing white in Burgundy

Chateau Chasse-Spleen Moulis en Medoc 2018 Wine Bar | Sparkling & Cider Cabernet Franc has quietly becomeChateau Chasse Spleen sits at the very top of the unclassified Mdoc tier a Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel that consistently overdelivers against classed growths. The Merlaut Villars family has owned this Moulis estate for decades (today run by Celine Villars Foubet), and the curious name traces back to Baudelaire and Lord Byron's notion of 'le spleen,' the melancholy this wine was supposedly built to chase away. 2018 was a benchmark Mdoc vintage a warm,