2008 Domaine Bernard Baudry Chinon La Croix Boissée

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 92.2 points

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  6/29/2023 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 92 Points

  From a small capped bottle (wine divided for zoom tasting). Nose is deep and savory, dark blackberry fruit. Some green pyrazines, green pepper a bit of cassis. Palate is tart green, savory, a bit overwhelming sour on the end and finish - a bit bitter. (Not sure if the Rieslings we had affected my palate). Nose - 5-5.5/6, Palate - 5/6, Finish - 4.5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1/2 = 15.5-16/20.
  
  Day 2: Day 2: nice and herbal with some tobacco and a dark chery core behind that. Some dusty minerality. The palate is smoother tonight (possibly last night my perception was a bit off due to the Germans including the 21 Giesela we had before the reds. Very dry and dusty, verging on a bit thin but stays on the right side. Light wiht high acid and graceful. Dark cherries and Tabacco and stony minelrity. Finish is dry and tart and herbal. Good length and on the slight side. Nose - 5/6, Palate - 5/6, Finish - 5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1/2 = 16/20.

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  5/5/2022 - Winiac wrote: 91 Points

  Mature with acid +, and tertiary flavors. Lean and dry.

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  5/10/2021 - Adrc Likes this wine: 93 Points

  C’est la première des 3 bouteilles en cave.
  La robe est grenat. Elle est légèrement évoluée.
  Le nez est expressif et complexe mais l’absence de poivron (pas flagrant) pourrait faire douter de son origine et nous envoyer un peu plus au sud ! On retrouve des fruits rouges (cerise) et noirs (cassis), du poivre, une touche de sous-bois rappelant que le vin a quelques années !
  En bouche, l’attaque est ample puis l’acidité s’invite directement, couplée à très beaux tannins crayeux. Le vin est parfaitement équilibré et la finale est longue.
  Un des plus beaux Chinon dégusté cette année. Il ne faut jamais sous-estimer les années « intermédiaires » qui offrent régulièrement de belles surprises avec finesse et complexité.

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  12/11/2020 - forceberry wrote: 93 Points

  The flagship Chinon of Bernard Baudry, coming from a 15-40 yo vineyard planted on chalky soil. Fermented spontaneously, macerated with the skins for 20 days in oak vats and then aged for 24 months in 1-3 yo oak barrels. 13,5% alcohol.
  
  Quite concentrated, somewhat developed and almost fully opaque blackish-red color with a slightly figgy hue. Open, somewhat sweet-toned and even slightly claret-y nose with aromas of ripe blackcurrants, some funky notes of old leather and barnyard, a little bit of dusty old wood, light notes of tobacco, a subtly herbaceous hint of cooked bell pepper and a sweet touch of volatile lift. Overall the nose feels wonderfully nuanced and quite seductive, but not particularly herbaceous. The wine feels dry, dense and structured on the palate with a moderately full body and a taste that leans quite heavily on rustic, bretty funk. Intense flavors of fresh blackcurrants, stable floor, some ferrous notes of blood, a little bit of tobacco, light gravelly mineral tones, a hint of sour cherry bitterness and a touch of burnt hair. The overall feel is very structure-driven, thanks to the high acidity and still remarkably ample, firm and grippy tannins. There's a subtle streak of acetic character that lends a hint of roughness and burn in throat as the taste segues into the long, dry and rather tannic aftertaste. There are quite intense flavors of fresh blackcurrants and crunchy crowberries, some barnyardy notes of bretty funk, a little bit of cooling peppermint lift and a herbaceous hint of cooked bell pepper in the aftertaste.
  
  Despite being a very intense, concentrated and broad-shouldered Chinon, this is a surprisingly tough, lean and austere effort as well, leaning more heavily in savory non-fruit flavors and bretty funk than on fruity qualities. Despite being rather heavy on bretty side of things, the wine is very harmonious and enjoyable - not in small part due to the funky, bretty notes and phenolic qualities playing so well to the crunchy, savory overall taste of the wine and its firm tannins. If the normal style of Baudry is more Burgundian, this vintage of La Croix Boissée feels much more like a classic, cold, old-school Bordeaux. It's not a crowdpleaser wine by any means, but if you are not afraid of assertive tannins and a healthy dose of brett, this is a very lovely wine indeed. It is still relatively youthful for its age and calls for further aging, at least to tone down some of that structure. If opened now, the wine could really use some hearty food - just to soften those tannins a bit. A great, rustic wine.

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  10/20/2019 - vulgar little monkey wrote: 93 Points

  This magnum was a wedding gift from Matthieu. I've never seen a magnum of Croix Boissée before (and I've tried to talk him into bottling some) so it was a great pleasure to share with my out-of-town guests. I don't think that 2008 was a particularly advantageous vintage in the central Loire but this is certainly an excellent wine, as Matthieu seems to be able to do no matter the year. What jumps out is that classic red fruit on limestone nose that is so classic to Croix Boissée in the same way that the dark earth note is to Grézeaux. Not fully resolved, but resolved enough that the tannin support the wine rather than control it. Fantastic with the duck where the protein and fat are enough to melt the structure and I just taste the dish and the fruit of the wine. Of course there are the purple flowers and some herbal notes but it is mostly the crunchy red fruit and limestone. Bravo and thank you, Matthieu.

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