Birth Year Bordeaux: The 1978 Château Monbousquet Experience
⏱ 1 min read The Short Version At 47, the author bought a 1978 Château Monbousquet, finding it fragile and faint but present, a ghost of its former self. The wine’s survival symbolizes existence over excellence, chasing the echo of a moment rather than quality. In This Article The Tasting: Fragile and FaintExistence Over Excellence At 47, I bought a case of my birth year wine. Through Catawiki, I landed a 1978 Château Monbousquet — a St Émilion Grand Cru that’s more footnote than legend. The gamble felt like a reckoning with time, a collision of memory and risk. Two…