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2005 Domaine des Baumard Coteaux du Layon Cuvée Le Paon |
| Vintage | 2005 |  Label 1 of 2   | |
| Type | White - Sweet/Dessert | ||
| Producer | Domaine des Baumard (web) | ||
| Variety | Chenin Blanc | ||
| Designation | n/a | ||
| Vineyard | Cuvée Le Paon | ||
| Country | France | ||
| Region | Loire Valley | ||
| SubRegion | Anjou-Saumur | ||
| Appellation | Coteaux du Layon |
| Community Tasting History |
Community Tasting Notes (average 92.4 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 15 notes) | |
| Tasted by christerman on 1/7/2010 & rated 90 points: excellent (258 views) | |
| Tasted by tooch on 12/30/2009 & rated 95 points: December 30th (Washington, DC): Stunning bottle of chenin blanc. Aromatics are off the charts with apricots and honeycomb. The balance of this wine is amazing - it has a great sweetness, but the acidity keeps this bottle in check. I think this bottle can be the ideal desert wine, but could also do a number on many main courses. Seek out this stunning bottle. (300 views) | |
| Tasted by isaacjamesbaker on 12/30/2009 & rated 95 points: Wine with Tooch (Washington, D.C.): tooch and i are on the same page with this one. golden color and viscous in the glass. right away, even chilled, the aromatics on this wine pop out of the glass and seduce you, and, yes, you like it. you get honeycomb, melon, white peach nectar on the nose. this wine just caresses your palate with its creamy richness, but it's got such well-balanced acid that you just keep sipping at it. the flavors are superb: honeycomb cereal, white peach, dried apricot, fresh marmalade. yumm. i love loire dessert wines and this is up there with the best i've had in recent years. the richness, the acid, the flavors, the drinkability and the sexy finish on this wine rock you. (265 views) | |
| Tasted by DaleW on 11/22/2009: Ripe apples, apricot, some citrus zest. Ripe, sweet enough to qualify as dessert wine, good length. Just a hint of botrytis. Could use a bit more acidic zip. B (457 views) | |
| Tasted by tooch on 11/11/2009 & rated 93 points: JC, Blake and I Drink Wine (my apartment): Amazing depth on the nose of caramel, apricots, and kerosene. Mouthfeel of this wine is outrageous - totally coating my palate. The tropical fruits explode here, with pineapple, guava, passion fruit, mango and banana intermixed with caramel and white chocolate notes. Extrdoinarily sweet, but with extreme finesse and balance. Stunning bottle. (609 views) | |
| Tasted by truenorth on 10/4/2009: This wine was much sweeter than I expected, like a dessert wine. (My fault; I was expecting something like the slightly amazing Baumard Trie Speciale.) We really couldn't eat it with food, saved it for dessert. I'm not very familiar with this style of wine but it seemed to have a very pleasant aftertaste of pear or quince, and merit a score over 90. (675 views) | |
| Tasted by Tarhealer on 9/8/2009 & rated 93 points: (602 views) | |
| Tasted by tcfishler on 2/21/2009: Seagreen nose, not as in-your-face as it was at the Domaine, and less exquisitely balanced in the mouth too, coming off as a bit sugared around the edges, although the richly honeyed flavors are truly in keeping with the sweetness level. (1205 views) | |
| Tasted by magnord on 2/8/2009 & rated 91 points: (1049 views) | |
| Tasted by tcfishler on 10/2/2008: Loire Trip (with stops in Beaujolais and the Cote Chalonnaise); 10/2/2008-10/5/2008: A selection of botrytized grapes from throughout Baumard’s holdings in Layon. Expressive, with super high energy fruit that becomes powerfully seductive in the mouth. Fantastic acidity only heightens the pleasure here. Rather in-your-face compared to the Clos St. Catherine, but I love this stuff. (1367 views) | |
| Tasted by wineismylife on 8/21/2008 & rated 92 points: WIML92 Tasted August 21, 2008 as part of the WinExiles August 2008 tasting. Bottled under screwcap(yeah!) 12.5% alcohol. Opened and decanted so I could follow the wine over a few hours period. Light yellow to yellow color in the glass, clear hue throughout. Upon initial opening a nose of apricot, lychee, orange, brown spices and maybe some kumquat. Flavors of rich apricots soaked in brandy, pears, sweet orange and honey. Bright acidity, medium to full body. Rich and lucious on the palate without being cloying. Somewhere between off-dry and sweet. Hold. Should be a long lived wine. No significant change in the wine after 3 hours in the decanter. Recorked for tomorrow. (1431 views) | |
| Tasted by win on 3/1/2008 & rated 91 points: Very expressive sweet wine -- that also seemed fairly light and refreshing. I would give it more time. (1669 views) | |
| Tasted by Otto Nieminen on 1/9/2008: A nice wine with typical Chenin aromatics of green-pea, hay and citrus. All is well, except that it seems a bit too sweet for the structure. Nice anyway. (1791 views) | |
| Tasted by Anonymous on 12/15/2007 & rated 92 points: (1379 views) | |
| Tasted by plhew on 8/10/2007 & rated 92 points: (1454 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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