{"product_id":"chateau-chasse-spleen-1979","title":"Chateau Chasse-Spleen Moulis-en-Medoc 1979 AOC 0,75l","description":"\u003cp\u003eNobody has settled where the name came from. One account credits Lord Byron, another Baudelaire, whose \u003cem\u003eSpleen\u003c\/em\u003e poems gave French its word for a particular kind of melancholy. Either way, Chasse-Spleen has spent a century as the Médoc estate that outperforms its rank — a Cru Bourgeois in Moulis making wine that regularly embarrassed classified growths a few villages north.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 1979 falls inside the Villars era, which began in 1976 and is generally taken as the property's high-water mark. Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot in near-equal measure, grown on deep gravel, gave a wine built to be firm young and generous late.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fill on this bottle is still in the bottom of the neck after forty-seven years, which tells you the cork held and the cellar stayed cold. That is rarer than it sounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eProducer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Château Chasse-Spleen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVintage:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1979\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAppellation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Moulis-en-Médoc AOC\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e 75cl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRegion:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bordeaux, France\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStyle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Red\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere it is likely to be now.\u003c\/strong\u003e Chasse-Spleen was always built to last, and with a fill this high the wine has a genuine chance of still being alive and savoury rather than merely intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho it suits.\u003c\/strong\u003e Well suited to a couple marking forty-seven years of marriage in 2026, or to anyone who enjoys the idea of a wine that quietly beat its own classification.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition.\u003c\/strong\u003e Good label, a little corrosion on the metal capsule from decades in a damp cellar, and a fill still at the bottom of the neck — unusually high for 1979 and a strong sign of careful storage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance.\u003c\/strong\u003e Bought to order from a professional European merchant. We check fill, label and capsule when the bottle reaches us and photograph it before it ships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelivered in 7 to 10 working days, tracked. Transit cover can be added at checkout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSold as a collectible item, as seen. No guarantee is given on drinkability.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!--anno-tpl-3--\u003e","brand":"Château Chasse-Spleen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58326597501272,"sku":"ANNO-000488","price":129.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/6505\/6856\/files\/chateau-chasse-spleen-1979_870dd731-f69c-441c-9a80-d8ef9c57d641.jpg?v=1790767168","url":"https:\/\/anno.wine\/products\/chateau-chasse-spleen-1979","provider":"ANNO","version":"1.0","type":"link"}