Chateau Lascombes

The other winery stop of the day was at Chateau Lascombes. This winery was a 2nd Grand Cru Classé winery. If you just took the tour of Lascombes and Pedesclaux without tasting wine, you would have to assume that Lascombes makes a better wine because they obviously put a lot more effort into the wine making process. It was very interesting to hear the extra steps that Lascombes takes in the process to make a better wine. At Pedesclaux it was more like "We pick the grapes, we crush them, we put them in the vats to ferment, we put them in the barrels and then we bottle the wine." At Lascombes there were about 10 extra steps and you could see that it made a big difference. The wine was very good but at 40€ ($50) a bottle it seemed kind of expensive. It is actually cheaper to buy it here in the U.S. rather than at the winery in France. Not too logical. Overall the tour was good. I would have liked to drink more wine, but I think with a place like Bordeaux, which is all about reputation, it was probably more important to just see the famous Chateaux. We probably couldn't have gotten in to the big ones anyway.