Q1 Tasting - Cabernet Franc wines (Our Apt): Wine #8: Drank as part of a Cabernet Franc blind tasting. Can definitely taste the age on this (interesting as we had an '97 by same producer but different vineyard that tasted MUCH younger). This was bell pepper and tobacco and leather. The fruit in the form of cough syrup that existed in '05 had faded if it ever existed. Nice wine. Good with duck. (5 pennies)
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Loire Cab Franc Tasting: More obvious mature character here, with the dusty fruit more dried than fresh and a lot of herbal mushroom character. Fully integrated, the tannins are mostly resolved, and while this lacks punch it's still quite nice.
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7/16/2016 - finewinebuff57 wrote: 90 Points
Classic mature Chinon. Full colour. lean, slightly understated, elegant, long. 12% alcohol. Attractive in every way if not .
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2/27/2016 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Q1 Tasting - Cabernet Franc wines (Our Apt): Wine #8: Drank as part of a Cabernet Franc blind tasting. Can definitely taste the age on this (interesting as we had an '97 by same producer but different vineyard that tasted MUCH younger). This was bell pepper and tobacco and leather. The fruit in the form of cough syrup that existed in '05 had faded if it ever existed. Nice wine. Good with duck. (5 pennies)
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3/5/2015 - coremill wrote: 88 Points
Loire Cab Franc Tasting: More obvious mature character here, with the dusty fruit more dried than fresh and a lot of herbal mushroom character. Fully integrated, the tannins are mostly resolved, and while this lacks punch it's still quite nice.
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