I'm a believer!

Gone are the days of wines under 5 €. I am unfortunately back in the USA.  Before I left for my fabulous trip to France I had purchased a Groupon to Barclays Wine.  This was a purchase from about a year ago and was coming up to expiration date.  I quickly ordered random wines to satisfy offer before expiration date.  After tasting some disapointing wines from the Bordeaux region, I had no expectations for one of the bottles I purchased from this offer. 

 It was a 2010 Chateau les Tuileries Bordeaux, this bottle is $14.95 on Barclay's website, I consider this a bargain based on US prices.  If the heavens could have opened and angels sing, that would have been the entrance this wine made.  From the first smell, lovely smoky, fruity aromas to the first taste of smooth ripe berries I was in love.  I take back everything I said about the Bordeaux appellation.  I think there is definitely a variety in that appellation and I quickly dismissed based on a couple of bad bottles. 

Now that I am back in the US I will have to search  for those fabulous french wines and disregard the 300% markup for said wines and enjoy.