2009 Château Bouissel Fronton La Negrette de Bouissel

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 89 points

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  2/26/2013 - hernandezt wrote: 89 Points

  Much better the second day. Tannins softened and was very enjoyable.
  Recommend decanting for several hours in order to enjoy it.
  Beautiful.
  The wine looks Garnet colored.

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  2/5/2013 - Oh Dae-su wrote: 83 Points

  No real harm, no real excitement! Pretty boring for a Vin Naturel! Plenty of simple dark fruit and not too much more! Speaking of Vin Naturel, this afternoon I have allowed myself to do some “involuntary” “winery resp. wine reconnaissance” work anyway. Not serious work, of course! Somehow I am under the impression that this winery could be not that vin-naturel'ish as I might imagine it should!? Okay, my French is pretty crap (or I was simply too lazy) – so serious doubts are absolutely justified! Perhaps one of you guys can check out for me ;-)

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  1/11/2011 - campingfleurie wrote: 93 Points

  On opening, the aroma floods the vicinity, despite the bottle being cool. This is an “accident in a paint factory” kind of wine. Actually, maybe it’s a collision between a florists cart and a Provencal cherry stall. Observers tossed their melting vanilla ice creams and chocolate bars into the pile up. Ridiculously expressive; not to say loud. It IS wine though, because it cleanses, in actually an interestingly weightless fashion. Reminds me of how some girl-targeted South African Shiraz-Viogniers are being made. This has evolved in 4 months. The fruit has lightened towards now a mid-purple cherry (which were definitely picked minutes before); the tannin has softened; and as part of that a little of the flesh has fallen out. Now showing as the easiest drinking red I have had in some years – the bottle seemed gone in minutes. Not the way I would have all wine be, but there’s a time and a place and a foodstuff (the back label notes “ou d’un cuisine plus exotique”, and our Chinese takeaway was that to perfection). This is the peak of Natural-meet-modern winemaking in a conducive vintage by the best winemaker in the region. A drink-young premium cuvee – how inspired and honest. If you’ve got it or can get it, drink it all in 2011. 92 to 93, 93!!

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  9/16/2010 - campingfleurie wrote: 91 Points

  Yabba (what dense aromatics of gentle-pepper, purple-roses, dark-blackcurrant, plump black-cherry, tar, paint and cream), Dabba (what a thick, flowing, full palate of Natural, dark fruit and pepper), Doo… ooooh? (the middle of the finish contains crunchy tannin with a gritty aspect that had me looking in my glass for sediment). That disappeared with the second glass – with a meal, and with the infatuation caused by this indulgent, purely-flavoured, fleshy, patently-unfiltered creature. The nose is not especially fruity actually: its components artistically share the limelight, and the furry edges to the aromatic denseness chime further with the fundamentally rustic structure/DNA of Negrette. This special cuvee is gloriously concentrated; as evidenced by the 14.5% alc over the usual 12.5% of their ‘Classic’ cuvee. It’s very 2009. Relatively low-acid, so is for drinking young. And drink again I will, because this is an adorable blend of the old and the new; and the value, on account of the utter anonymity of Fronton, is unworldly. 90-91, 91, now. Likely to open a little more and be 92-93 at its peak in 2011.

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