1996 Charles Joguet Chinon Clos de la Dioterie

Community Tasting Notes (28) Avg Score: 90.4 points

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  2/4/2021 - DBdeParis wrote: flawed

  Same as Ara below - slightly corked but enough to ruin the great wine underneath. Went to a 2000 Chene Vert as backup and that was corked too. WTF Joguet - clearly a long-running problem with quality controlling cork. Two previous bottles also corked.

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  7/31/2020 - Ara Kafafian wrote: flawed

  Blind, undeniably corked, what a shame because the underlying wine seemed sensational.

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  4/25/2020 - whits Likes this wine: 96 Points

  cork was in pristine shape, as was the bottle, deep bouquet of dried flowers, damp earth, iron and cherries, totally singing, ethereal, balance and pedigree shine through, masculine and soulful, delicious acidity, matured, with dried red and black fruit, tobacco, ash, black tea, Goji berries and cherry skins, the complexity seems endless, a big mahalo to whoever preserved this wine for most of its life, which ultimately ended up in my glass tonight and created a joyful memory, had with a bowl of beef stew

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  3/31/2019 - eboracum wrote: 88 Points

  This last bottle of 6 confirms the emergence of barnyard from the background, though the mature fruit and fragrant aromas were more present from opening than with the previous bottle. It was interesting to note that the apparent presence of barnyard was affected by the pairing. With a chicken dish accompanied by fresh peas, it was prominent but, with goat cheese and fine Cheddar, it receded to such an extent that the wine almost equalled some the delicious early bottles. Still good with the right pairing.

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  8/3/2018 - eboracum Likes this wine: 88 Points

  I have been a big fan of this wine but this was not the best bottle. At first I wondered if it were flawed with dried out fruit, pasty and rather hollow mid-palate and marked barnyard component but, with air and some warming, the fruit reappeared, the palate filled in and the barnyard receded into a, for me, acceptable background. Still good but no longer the ethereal wine of many previous bottles.

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