Chateau Rollan de By 2009

Chateau Rollan de By is a cru bourgeois estate that I have met time and again on the shelves, but it was only at the last Wine and Dine Festival that I got round to tasting the 2009 vintage. Looking it up on its website, I was surprised to note a couple of things. There was a full range of kosher wines, and there was a hotel on the estate. The former was the first time I had seen kosher wines so prominent in a Website, although I had seen kosher clarets in a London food store in an area where there was quite a large Jewish population. As for the wine, it was a deep ruby, with a fruity acid leafy nose. The palate was sweet berry with a good dose of tannins, giving way to a tannic acid backbone giving sterling support.