2010 Buty Merlot/Cabernet Franc

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  1/13/2022 - lucagiupponi Likes this wine:

  This is such a good wine. Round, balanced, aromatic. Full bodied without being ripe. Youthful levels of fruit and acidity, but the tannins are very fine. Alas, I only recently discovered Buty. It seemed fitting to open this bottle, then. after the announcement that this winery is closing this month. Looking forward to opening the remaining bottles I have.

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  2/5/2021 - Bladams13 Likes this wine:

  I failed to take notes, but I found this enjoyable. I recall it having nice dark fruit, nice texture and density. It also had an element of salinity.

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  4/24/2017 - Champagneinhand Likes this wine: 88 Points

  This seems to be in a dormant stage at this point. Even with a double decant and an hour of air time the nose was quite withdrawn even with a lot of swirling. Some notes if dark cherries, dark plum, some vanilla oak notes, a touch of dried herbs from the Cab franc are quite apparent. In the mouth the flavors are similar with good acid and mineral backbone. Grippy tannin that are a bit more than chewy went well with a hangar steak and thin pub fries. The chimchurri sauce accentuated the herbaceous nature of the wine.
  
  Still I would prefer to let my 2 remaining bottles to age more to see the tannins and acid resolve a bit more and allow the reticent florals to emerge more. We had this side by side with a right bank Bordeaux and a Milbrant Merlot which was much more in a primary stage.
  I wish I had opened a bottle a few years back as this probably had a very good primary drinking window. For now I will hold out for the promised second and tertiary development. Plenty of stuffing and I could see this gaining a few more points overall. Possible 91-93 down the road.
  
  I'm certain this would have been great on a second day, but we were in a restaurant with plenty of people trying different right Bank blends.

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  4/22/2017 - ocperu wrote: 93 Points

  Beautiful, expressive and lengthy.

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  2/26/2017 - Pedroel Likes this wine: 92 Points

  No notes, but very nice & ready to drink; no rush. The cab franc makes this wine.

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