1996 François Cazin (Le Petit Chambord) Cour-Cheverny Vendanges Manuelles

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  10/9/2010 - BradKNYC wrote:

  The Kesslers visit NYC and I roast a little piggy to go with some terrific wines. (Dougherty's): It’s been about ten or so years since I last had this wine. This is not the “Cuvée Renaissance” bottling that one normally sees on shelves and in notes the past number of years, but the drier version that I think was the only one originally released here back in the day. Indeed, this was a house favorite of mine when I worked at Garnet as I could get it for about $8. I thought at $8, there must be a ton of this available, so I probably went through a case or two of it on release. Well, of course there wasn’t a lot of this around and I’ve been kicking myself since for not having squirreled any away. In ten years this wine has barely budged. The only real difference is that the acidity, which was once in the S & M realm, has eased up a bit. Other than that it retains the youthful quince, raspberry and mineral profile it had on release. Thoroughly enjoyable and invigorating. I think Coad even liked it better than when he had it eleven years ago. Solid A-.

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