Chateau Siran 1998

This is a magnum of Chateau Siran 1998, which I tasted at the joint KCCWS-Hong Kong Wine Society Xmas party last year. I had previously blogged that Chateau Siran, like Mouton, had been having art labels on its bottle, but also that its previously owner, the Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, had another art connection in the form of his descendant Henri (de Toulouse-Lautrec), a well known painter of the French Impressionist era. The painting for the 1998 label is from Raymond Moretti and celebrates the World Cup that year, which was hosted in France and with France being the champions as well. Ruby, with an acid but slightly cardboardy nose, the above wine had a sweet acid palate with notes of fruit, well supported by an acid slightly tannic backbone.