This was a rare chance to taste a wine from one of the smallest Bordeaux vineyards. Although the 1950 vintage has largely been forgotten, it was irrefutably a great year in Pomerol and a very good year in St.-Emilion. Readers should remember that in the fifties wine writers concentrated on the wines of the Medoc, and gave little attention to what were considered the rustic, peasant wines of Bordeaux's right bank. This dark, plum-colored wine exhibits considerable amber at the edge, but a deep, richly-colored middle. The huge nose of tobacco, jammy plums, and meat-like aromas is followed by a wine with admirable depth and richness, medium to full body, some austerity, but excellent purity. While fully mature, it is capable of holding for another decade.