2005 Domaine Bernard Baudry Chinon Le Clos Guillot

Community Tasting Notes (21) Avg Score: 89.9 points

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  7/8/2022 - jmcmchi wrote: 90 Points

  From soft gravel soil, experimental vines, showing little sign of age in glass
  
  Soft tannins, dark fruit, earthy and vegetable notes very distinct. Age has clearly softened it, but still a way to go

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  1/12/2022 - dagij Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Deep garnet, showing clear signs of its age. At first the nose is quite animalistic (wet dog fur, leather), but also with some fascinating tones of newly baked bread, a hint of tobacco, and a touch of prunes. Medium bodied attack, high acidity and dry tannins dominate at first, then a red berry fruit emerges at the end. The finish is a bit dry verging on meager, but it is very fresh and very long. At the end there is a fascinating hint of red berries and tobacco. Again a wine that is made for food. Fully mature now, perhaps a bit over the top, but still very enjoyable. Fun to see how well cabernet franc wines age if made by the right people.

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  12/11/2021 - blank blank wrote:

  Opens with a brett-fueled “pop”; and indeed, this isn’t shy with the horse saddle / band-aid / game. To be honest it’s remarkably bretty, oaky, and ripe compared to what I expected, and has a little bit of a “Pegau, but in cab franc form” thing going on. Not what I expected. That being said, it’s a very nice example of aged cab France, with plenty of red fruit and sweet tobacco under the funk, a youthful - albeit slightly roasted - fruit profile, and plenty of remaining tannins that have melted now into a velvet texture. At my upper limit of brett tolerance, and quite ripe, but darn good in spite of all that!

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  10/30/2021 - danielito wrote: 91 Points

  Dark, rich ripe dry cab franc fruit. The fruit initially takes a back seat to the tannins, then emerges. Tannins are less pronounced on day 2. Nice balancing acidity, no discernable oak or funk.

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  12/12/2020 - GAET Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Pas de note formelle, je l'ai bue il y a 2 mois.

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