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1999 Domaine des Baumard Coteaux du Layon Clos de Sainte Catherine |
| Vintage | 1999 |  Label 1 of 4   | |
| Type | White - Sweet/Dessert | ||
| Producer | Domaine des Baumard (web) | ||
| Variety | Chenin Blanc | ||
| Designation | n/a | ||
| Vineyard | Clos de Sainte Catherine | ||
| Country | France | ||
| Region | Loire Valley | ||
| SubRegion | Anjou-Saumur | ||
| Appellation | Coteaux du Layon |
| Community Tasting History |
Community Tasting Notes (average 91.8 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 6 notes) | |
| Tasted by pifcho on 11/11/2009 & rated 91 points: Good sweet chenin. This is nowhere near as sweet as the Quarts, but is probably at an auslese sweetness level in a ripe year. Big body on this guy, but light on its feet. Starts out with sweet white cherries, but then the acid and the secondary flavors kick in - quince, sweet onions / peppers a touch of ginger. Very interesting wine with a clean finish and long aftertaste. I liked it more than my wife, who was a bit bothered by the veggie flavors. I rated it 92, she rated it 90... This actually paired well with the sushi... (163 views) | |
| Tasted by win on 10/14/2006 & rated 92 points: Blind Birthday Tasting (Win's House - Texas): Great palette cleanser, with just enough acidity to perfectly complement its underlying complex fruit. (2040 views) | |
| Tasted by wineismylife on 10/14/2006 & rated 92 points: win's 40th Birthday Party (win's house in The Colony, TX): WIML92,NOWA,WS91 Tasted October 14, 2006 at win’s 40th birthday party. Opened and served immediately in a Riedel restaurant series white wine glass. Yellow color in the glass, clear hue throughout. Nose of oranges and almonds. Flavors of orange marmalade, pears and nuts. Perfectly balanced. Drinking really well now but should hold based on tastings of previous vintages. (2012 views) | |
| Tasted by win on 7/13/2006 & rated 92 points: Carrollton, TX OL (Amici's): Lemon in color with the aroma of barely ripe peaches and a hint of honey. Followed by sweet flavors of apricot with vanilla in the background. This wine really coated my mouth, yet had a crisp finish. Tasted single blind at an OL. The WOTN. I've had the 1969 St. Catherine (96 pts.), and this wine has really been able to age well. (3085 views) | |
| Tasted by Anonymous on 11/29/2004: Thicker / heavier than I was expecting - or maybe it just seems more syrupy than usual due to the low acidity level... Not much at all happening on the nose - kind of mute, actually. On the palate it's a bit monolithic / cloying / granular/ flabby. Nowhere close to the level of, say, the '95 and '96, but a fair enough value for $17, discounted. That said, I can't imagine this aging really well, for it just seems to be lacking the necessary balance and underlying acidity... (3546 views) | |
| Tasted by spidersva on 11/1/2004: Very interesting. Lighter than a boytritis, almost fragile. Very good, but a little light for me. (1158 views) |
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Dessert Wine (Wikipedia) Varietal character (Appellation America) Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia) Vins du Val de Loire (Interprofession des Vins du Val de Loire) ABOUT THE LOIRE VALLEY: South-central France has many distinguishing characteristics, but the one that cannot be avoided and ignored, and certainly cannot be underestimated, is the Massif Central. This huge upwelling of ancient granite, and the limestone and sandstone it sloughed aside as it rose, present a formidable obstacle for anyone attempting to drive from, say, Clermont-Ferrand to Nimes. As large mountain ranges have a habit of doing, it also drives many of the weather systems in the area, capturing moisture, and unleashing it in torrents. Somewhere in a sub-range of the Massif Central called the Cévennes, a trickle begins amidst granite and limestone, that through a great deal of luck, topography, and perhaps force of personality, decides to do what streams of water rarely do, and heads due North. 630 miles later, after passing through a large part of France and making a hard left at Orléans, the Loire river heads out to sea on France's western coast at the port of Nantes. The Loire in addition to being its longest river, is one of France's defining characteristics, and is intertwined in both its history as well as its geography. It often demarcated the boundary between warring factions of one sort or another. In particular it was one of the major fronts of the wars between the Roman empire and the Gauls -- the veritable barbarians at the gate -- as the Romans expanded out of Italy to establish their empire. As the stories go, this particular front existed for so long that the Romans (when they weren't busy catapulting cauldrons of boiling oil on their foes across the river) planted grapes in the river valley, to ensure their ability to provide their soldiers with their daily rations of wine. No one knows for sure whether these were the first vines planted in the area -- certainly the Loire valley has hosted wine grapes since at least the first century BC, and quite possibly much earlier -- but we do know through their records that the Romans, and their immediate successors, planted Chenin Blanc and Sauvignon Blanc on the schist covered hillsides surrounding the river. Whether through fate, destiny, or pure viticultural genius, this choice has resulted in one of France's finest and largest growing regions for white wine -- and a region which produces some of the best, and least appreciated white wines in the world. |
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