2020 Domaine Bernard Baudry Chinon Les Grézeaux

Community Tasting Notes (26) Avg Score: 90.9 points

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  1/30/2024 - grafstrb wrote:

  -- decanted 45 min. before initial taste --
  -- tasted non-blind over 4 hrs. on Day 1; revisited on Day 2 --
  
  NOSE: "dark"; medium pyrazine; barely-ripe banana; leaning high-toned; a touch stanky; wet stones / petrichor at 3.5hrs open mark.
  
  BODY: garnet-violet color of medium-deep to deep depth; medium-light to medium bodied. Oddly, my 750s have labels intended for mags.
  
  TASTE: jalapeno pyrazine; purple-fruited; light horse tack funk; light, medium-fine, tannins; adequate acidity; alc. not noticeable (13%). Day 2: largely the same as Day 1, including the slight funk; flashy/touch thin. I like-don't-love it; quite happy to have a couple more at the $23 I paid.

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  12/28/2023 - Aravind Asok wrote:

  Pop and pour. Notes from 1 hr open. On the nose: cinnamon, cherry, camphor. On the palate: good acidity, black cherry, ash, light bodied, soft tannin. Juicy and enjoyable now!

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  12/18/2023 - ThijsPiet Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Sweet entry into some bitter flowers. Lovely complexity and long aftertaste

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  9/25/2023 - viniferatu Likes this wine:

  Love this. Lotsa fruit, a range from red to black, as well as plenty of veg, earth, spice, flowers, and yes Brett, but nothing that gets in the way of the fruit. Tannins are fine and well integrated already. Pretty easy-going for a wine that will age well for at least 10 more years.

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  8/14/2023 - brooklynguy wrote:

  Decanted two plus house before drinking and the wine was still a beast when we got into it, with tannins that felt a bit intrusive and that I took to be from barrel. But I don’t know that newish wood is part of the Grezeaux program now - it may not be and I misread the wine. In either case, it took four hours for this to approach something like harmony, and it never really did. The fruit isn’t luminous and lovely either. I love Grezeaux in general, but this is just a bit much. I hope it’s simply what the vintage gave.

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