I saw this wine at a hotel restaurant recently. I had one vintage of it
around 10 years and that vintage was the millennial vintage. I had
blogged about various Thai wines and the remarks about that 2000
Saint-Lo was included in one of those entries. This is because this St
Emilion Grand Cru estate is Thai owned, being bought by the then Consul
of Thailand in Bordeaux Pathom Vongsuravatana in 1990. He turned the
estate around regaining the St Emilion Grand Cru designation that it had
lost in the previous few years in 1992. That older wine was bought at a
Chiang-Mai shopping centre in a holiday in August after the SARS
subsided in 2003, but I had not seen it since, hence I was surprised to
see it in Hong Kong.
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