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2005 Domaine des Baumard Savennières |
| Vintage | 2005 |  Label 2 of 3   | |
| Type | White | ||
| Producer | Domaine des Baumard (web) | ||
| Variety | Chenin Blanc | ||
| Designation | n/a | ||
| Vineyard | n/a | ||
| Country | France | ||
| Region | Loire Valley | ||
| SubRegion | Anjou-Saumur | ||
| Appellation | Savennières |
| Community Tasting History |
Community Tasting Notes (average 86.9 pts. and median of 86 pts. in 16 notes) | |
| Tasted by pbjosh on 11/12/2009 & rated 91 points: Waxy and leesy, intense minerality, good concentration, exquisite balance, imminently drinkable. Great bottle and great value. (225 views) | |
| Tasted by hutch on 9/30/2009 & rated 88 points: Loire Valley Wines Trade Tasting (Taj, Boston): Haven't had this in a year. Rich and full, very clean. Much more interesting then it was before. A lot going on here. Very good. 88+ (280 views) | |
| Tasted by willjschmidt on 9/22/2009 & rated 84 points: Full and rich wine. Apples, pears and some other light fruit. Dry with a bit of minerals in the finish. (306 views) | |
| Tasted by Dan Reichardt on 9/20/2009 & rated 85 points: Good, easy drinking, a little complexity, not that impressive (321 views) | |
| Tasted by Anonymous on 8/27/2009 & rated 86 points: a less than thrilling bottle of this usually capable wine. just rather blah, no overt flaws. (396 views) | |
| Tasted by ews3 on 5/2/2009 & rated 90 points: Philadelphia Wine Festival (Marriott, Philadelphia PA): very nice -- but no note taken (518 views) | |
| Tasted by jrobs7777 on 5/2/2009: The Eighth Annual Philadelphia Wine Festival (Philadelphia Marriott Downtown): Good, but not all that memorable. (533 views) | |
| Tasted by paulst on 2/9/2009 & rated 89 points: Deep blend of earth, lemon and some honey; notes of banana and vanilla. (537 views) | |
| Tasted by collin on 2/1/2009: Lip smacking. Apples and minerals is a great descriptor, though I get more minerals than apples. Nice, reasonably complex finish. No doubt this will improve over many years. I enjoyed this quite a bit. (570 views) | |
| Tasted by Anonymous on 10/25/2008 & rated 89 points: Plenty of apple and mineral character...and more apple, and more apple. Finish adds a melon note. Has great structure -- my gut tells me this will improve with a bit more age. (586 views) | |
| Tasted by tcfishler on 10/2/2008: Loire Trip (with stops in Beaujolais and the Cote Chalonnaise); 10/2/2008-10/5/2008: Ethereal fruit, flint, and a hint of sweat on the nose. Lots of extract and impact, with a good acid spine. Can’t knock this. (614 views) | |
| Tasted by hutch on 9/27/2008 & rated 84 points: Still don't get the fuss about this wine. The palate is rather hollow, with no acidity. Not a fan of this wine. (592 views) | |
| Tasted by sleepyhaus on 8/4/2008 & rated 83 points: This wine SUCKED. While I have heard great things about Baumard, and while I love other Loire wines, and while this wine was really quite expensive for an entry level loire white, it was just awful. I have rarely tasted a wine so out of balance. This wine was so flabby you can't believe it. It had rich texture, tons of feel, nose with some mineral, fruit, hints of anise, but the palate was all flab, no cut, no acidity, where is the balance. For a summer white I can imagine few worse, this was a terrible disappointment. (658 views) | |
| Tasted by manonthemoon on 7/5/2008 & rated 86 points: Nose of mostly quince , some citrus, and minerality. Palate mostly lychee, a hint of melon, lemon, lots of minerality in the middle giving way to awkward note on the end containing a small amount of acidity. Medium bodied and an okay finish. Disappointed in this wine for the price and would not buy again. (766 views) | |
| Tasted by jjclips2 on 5/19/2008 & rated 89 points: Oh yeah. I enjoy this quite a bit better than any Clos du Papillon I've had recently. This had a distinct richness that was amazing. It still contained the crisp acidity and fresh pear fruit and melon, yet held a lemon curd richness and a wonderful mouthfeel. 89+ (797 views) | |
| Tasted by hutch on 5/18/2008 & rated 86 points: Hmmm... I found this a little bit dull. It was very rich, and ripe, but didn't quite have the acidity I was hoping for. And the fruit wasn't really there for me. Will have to try again. 86 (717 views) |
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Definition of "white wine" at Epicurious.com 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. Savennières is a small, relatively well-known Loire Valley region producing wines made from the chenin blanc grape. They are not conventionally fruity, and benefit from extensive aging. One "tip" about Savennières is that they can have an aroma that is like wet concrete, similar to corkiness. |
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