2018 Clos du Tue-Boeuf Vin Rouge

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  3/16/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This is Tue-Boeuf estate Touraine Gamay potentially blended with fruit from southern Beaujolais. 2018 is thriving in 2024. Familiar Tue-Boeuf cold clay and tea-flavors join effortlessly with an exogenous front of sappy tannin and restless acidity. This frame-set allows plenty of room for a pageant of salted rose, marsh currants, purple tomatillo jam rinse, and broken bedrock. Chewable; attenuated; infected only with sweet strawberry blossom. This is a sensational, ingenious, and faithful congress of terroir. 91
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  into the second hour open I am bothered by the idea that 91 is a joke, and that only 92, in this instance, can remotely preserve my dignity as a point man. Also, *probably* a good idea is to drink up available stocks. It's arguably a muscular animal vulnerable to collapse. I think I have one more bottle with which to test that theory.
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  into the third hour: passive invasions of alpine tinctures, Andes, lime leaf, blood orange, and pastel cassis, ever more quenching in its dream of tea (ruthless tea tannins, animated with fruits of forest litter)

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  10/20/2019 - Elycohn Likes this wine: 89 Points

  A weighty Gamay of perfumed green stems, bright red fruit and hot tamale spice. It has a back door of green bell pepper and on day three, I was happy to welcome a little bit of soft caged mouse.

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