2007 Domaine Bois de Boursan Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Community Tasting Notes (28) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  3/11/2023 - Wine Canuck wrote: 93 Points

  This pours medium ruby in the glass. The nose is immediately expressive, traditional, and complex. Aromas are of white pepper, animal fur, dried currants, tar, licorice, wet hay, bay leaf, and lavender. The palate shows a touch of the ripeness of the vintage with some vaguely pruney character. Tannin is silky, medium minus with medium minus acid and a finish built on tar and licorice. All in all this is another lovey showing from this classic producer. Really enjoy the secondary character, and while the vintage shows a little here this is ultimately we’ll balanced and delicious right now.

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  1/1/2023 - Wine Spam wrote: 94 Points

  Expressive sweet fruit, herbs, and leather. Expansive and long, with some grip on the finish. Fine for at least five more years.

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  11/24/2022 - mattym19 wrote:

  Something definitely seems off about this wine. On opening the color is off, lots of bricking, looks like a wine at least twice as old. After sitting open for a while (two or three hours I guess?) the nose is coming around: mint, earth, crushed rock, mystery. Paate is better, cherries, blackberries, more minty notes, bitter herbs, licorice. I honestly can’t tell if this is cooked or correct.

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  3/5/2021 - SB5784 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  A dark garnet hue, just barely opaque with signs of moderate bricking and noticeable legs. Nose leaps from the glass immediately. Notes of red and black currant, spiced blackberry, leather, and herbs. Also gamey with some barnyard and dark chocolate aspects as well as pepper and smoke. Slightly stewed, but not in a bad way (perhaps the vintage?). Vivid and raw nose that is quite old school. Palate balanced with good dark red fruits that are still vibrant, but very ripe. The sweetness of the fruit is integrated nicely with spice and still quite puckering tannin structure and acidity. Texture is soft but textured and medium bodied like a fine linen. A spice filled, lengthy and cheeks puckering finish. This is in a really nice spot right now and I’m not sure futher aging will add much, but it has plenty left in the tank and I’d suspect will drink well for the next decade.

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  12/18/2020 - Wine Canuck wrote: 93 Points

  This pours medium garnet in the glass, just barely opaque at the core. Light bricking is evident. The nose is wildly expressive from the first pour. Notes of wet hay, farm stable, dried currants, dried cherries, baked blackberry, Herbs de Provence, worn leather, and decaying rose petals blast from the glass. The palate enters on lovely sweet slightly baked and dried fruit. The tannin is fairly low with medium acid holding this together. The finish is medium showing much of the earthy/secondary notes of the nose. Couldn't get enough of this! While it does show some of the '07 heat, in my view this is still very much a classically styled Châteauneuf-du-Pape.

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