2003 Couly-Dutheil Chinon Clos de l'Echo

Community Tasting Notes (31) Avg Score: 90.4 points

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  9/13/2022 - riskun Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Last bottle. Nice stony forest floor, leaf mold nose on a bit of cherry skins. A fairly lightweight entry and mid-mouth. I would even call it a bit thin and hollow. Finishes with some decent tannin backdrop. Tannins fine and coming quite late. I can only assume the thinness and lack of energy mid-mouth is the age showing. I am going to drop the drink Latest to 2022.

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  6/27/2022 - Julian Marshall Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Not much evolution from 2018 - very young and juicy still. Nothing burnt, neither on the nose nor the palate, just a little more concentrated than a normal vintage, with tightly wound dark cherry and blackberry, saved from syrupiness by a wave of cool, fresh blackcurrant mid-palate.
  
  A little too compact and tight for my taste, but this is a lot better than many other Loire red 2003s.
  I think it'll always be an "in spite of" rather than "thanks to the vintage" sort of wine, but much more restrained and classic than some more recent Clos de L'Echos.

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  2/23/2021 - GAET Likes this wine: 89 Points

  De mémoire, vin à maturiter avec des tanins fondus, mais soutenu par une fine amertume. Quelques arômes de poivron rouge, marqueur du cépage, mais très agréable.
  Bien ++

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  11/14/2020 - riskun Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Good nose with stony fruit, baked blackberry; all well integrated. Mouth is nice and fairly weighty. Finish comes on quickly with liquorice, tobacco, white pepper. Quite a peppery, drying finish. This remains surprisingly lively considering its age. From the record heat of 2003. Still life to go. 2026+

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  10/30/2020 - riskun Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Good nose, stony. All well integrated blackberry baked fruit. Nice mouth is fairly weighty. Finish come on quickly with liquorice, tobacco, white pepper. Quite a peppery, drying finish. This remains surprisingly lively after 17 years. It is from the record heat of 2003. Extend to 2026 but at this point could likely last longer without losing it's stuffing.

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