I also loved the 2007 Rauzan-Ségla. It has a Château Margaux-like bouquet of sweet red and black fruits, incense, flowers, and saddle leather. A classic blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon and 40% Merlot, this medium-bodied, precocious, complex effort has loads of character, resolved tannins, moderate acidity, notable balance, and a great finish. I’ve always loved the charming style of the 2007s, and this is drinking at point today yet will unquestionably keep for another decade or more.

Showing it's age in color, the wine offers cigar box, cedar wood, and tobacco with cassis on the back end. Medium bodied, almost light on the palate, the wine is elegant, fully mature and ready for consumption. Not a wine of density, it's still a wine of pleasure that does not warrant further age or much more than splash decanting. Tasted March 2017

2007 endured a difficult summer followed by a dry, sunny harvest that today would probably have caused no problems, but was more challenging at the time. This is less truffle and more mushroom in character, with the tight black fruits and excellent spice giving definition and lift through the palate. There is clear freshness here but the wine is just a little drying on the finish - it doesn't feel like the juice is going to run and run in the way that the 2008 does. Harvested between 21 September and 10 October with a yield of 43hl/ha. 60% new oak. Drinking Window 2019 - 2035
Tasted by Jane Anson (at Château Rauzan-Ségla vertical, 02 Apr 2019)
Part of Anson: Tasting every Château Rauzan-Ségla vintage from 1994 to 2018

Deep garnet colored, the 2007 Rauzan-Ségla is scented of cigar box, baking spices and preserved plums with nuances of pencil shavings, leather and bay leaves. The medium-bodied palate is delicately styled with maturing earth and spice flavors plus a chewy frame, finishing with an herbal lift.
The blend this year is 59% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot, harvested between September 21st and October 10th, at an average yield of 43 hectoliters per hectare. It was aged for 18 months in French oak, 60% new. The alcohol is 13.5%. LPB

The 2007 Rauzan-Ségla is a very fine contribution to an otherwise middling vintage. There is plenty of brambly red fruit on the nose that is briskly entering into its secondary phase: sage, undergrowth and light lavender scents emerging with time. The palate is medium-bodied with those same grain tannins I observed before. It is not the most finessed Rauzan-Ségla at the beginning although, there is more breeding towards the savory finish. I would not hesitate cracking one of these open now as I cannot see any benefit from further ageing, nor do I expect it to deteriorate rapidly. Tasted from a bottle from my own cellar.