Community Tasting Notes 11

• rocknroller wrote: 93 points

  December 10, 2023 - Annual Tasting Group Holiday Party (St. Genevieve, Mpls, MN): Dark red color. PNP, drank a glassover an hour. Well, I really liked this. Truffles, dark red fruit, perfumed, roses on the nose. The palate is simply juicy, with red cherry, dried earth, spice and wood notes on a medium body. This was bright and engaging.

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• Julian Marshall wrote:

  January 18, 2022 - The nose was great - floral, but especially dark fruits, with quite rich blackcurrant and soya beans. The first sip on opening showed it was a bit tight, so I decanted it for four hours. The attack was full of blackcurrants, followed by a broad, quite rich wave of dark cherry and then some dark raspberry on the finish. The fruit was crunchy, as usual with these wines, but for once it was black fruit rather than red, and the colour was a lot deeper than usual. So far so good.
  The fruit sensations do, however, differ from other wines - they taste as if the sugar has been extracted. Therefore, the fruit tastes very sappy, but also quite astringent, leaving a lip-smacking feeling which is a bit odd. It was rich, but not sweetly rich, on the contrary, a strangely dry richness.
  
  It was quite hard work to drink and at the moment, I admired it rather than liked it. There is a definite silky elegance and the way the quite deep richness is offset by crisp acidity bodes well.
  
  Obviously the Echelier 15 was still very young and needs another five years at least, but I'm not sure where it is going. I really have no idea if this wine is an outstanding wine in the making or the Emperor's New Clothes.

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• timshel wrote:

  October 9, 2021 - very good. muted on the nose at first but opened up as the night went on. Such an elegant wine.

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• JonBarnes1 wrote:

  August 15, 2021 - Aztec hot chocolate if it were reincarnated as red wine. Spicy, cocoa notes, virtually no fruit at this stage, but lots of pepper and gravel. Perhaps will appreciate this more a few years from now.

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• jerhardt wrote:

  September 24, 2019 - Mid-weight, polished, and fairly ripe; overall, an elegant and pretty good cab franc.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2015
• Type Red
• Producer Domaine des Roches Neuves
• Varietal Cabernet Franc
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Clos de L'Echelier
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Anjou-Saumur
• Appellation Saumur-Champigny
• UPC Code 761503433459

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• Pending Delivery 6 (2%)
• In Cellars 214 (71%)
• Consumed 83 (27%)

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