| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
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| White |
2021 La Grange aux Belles FragileAnjou-Saumur Chenin Blanc more |
3/17/2024 - Veni_Bibi_Vici wrote: 81 pointsLéger bouquet fermier et floral. Bouche aqueuse et légèrement saline, douce amertume, peu de fruit, peu de tension. Bu à l'apéro, mais rien de bien spécial ne sort de cette dégustation. |
| White |
2018 La Grange aux Belles FragileAnjou-Saumur Chenin Blanc more |
11/19/2023 - PatrikW Likes this wine: 89 pointsAmazing wine. When I as a young boy and running in the backyard with a pop powder gun, that is what I recognise when my nose hits the tip of the glass. Together with mangoes, pears, grilled lemon and yellow apple. |
| Red |
2020 La Grange aux Belles Vin de France Brise d'AunisRed Blend more |
10/30/2023 - ManuKey Likes this wine: 90 pointsQuel beau vin pour l'apéro! Friand, coulant, désaltérant, équilibré, que de bons mots! La robe est rubis translucide, très pâle et surprenant! Sur les fruits rouges bien croquants, la fraicheur, avec une pointe minérale... Rien n'accroche, tout est parfaitement aligné et ça coule de source. Excellente bouteille! |
| White |
2018 La Grange aux Belles FragileAnjou-Saumur Chenin Blanc more |
7/14/2022 - SuperSomm wrote: NRMedium gold colour. Medium and developing nose with yellow apples, peach, pear, apricot, mango, honey and wet stone. Medium (+) taste of yellow apples, peach, pear, apricot, mango, honey and wet stone. Long and semi-dry finish. High acidity. Medium body. A very good Chenin Blanc from Anjou. Drink now or over the next couple of years. Goes well with cheeses, fish, salads or vegetables. |
| Red |
2022 La Grange aux Belles Vin de France La Chaussée RougeRed Blend more |
8/27/2023 - donrayjr Likes this wine: 85 pointsMedium body, very tasty. |
| White |
2021 La Grange aux Belles Chenin La Roche de MûrsVin de France Chenin Blanc more |
6/21/2023 - Tudz Drkl Likes this wine: NRNose was slightly reductive at first but that blew off quickly then became green apples skin, straw and dust. On the palate, it is light airy mid palate but comes in as fresh underripe free apple and pithy grapefruit. It is nicely textured and sticks around. Very very nice |
| White |
2016 La Grange aux Belles FragileAnjou-Saumur Chenin Blanc more |
12/19/2022 - grapenomad wrote: 87 pointsHad this blind, guessed Chardonnay from Beaujolais. Pale lemon in the glass. Very straightforward nose reminiscent of lemon peel, green apple, green melon and some passionfruit. Easy on the palate as well, refreshing, slick. No complexity, very simply made, but coming in a magnum this is a no-brainer really on an easy Sunday afternoon. |
| Red |
2010 La Grange aux Belles 53Anjou Cabernet Franc more |
11/7/2022 - BillyOsh Likes this wine: 91 pointsWow best Grange aux Belles I’ve tasted, ever. Superbly balanced. Medium Dark violet purple. Spicy, black raspberry meets black driveway asphalt in a really good way. Finish falls off but I enjoyed this bottle a lot. |
| Red |
2021 La Grange aux Belles Vin de France Brise d'AunisRed Blend more |
10/24/2022 - jahlove wrote: flawedThe mouse on this wine is out of control. I drink a fair amount of "natty" wines but am increasingly more and more frustrated with the level of mouse I encounter in wines that are increasing in popularity. As per usual the mouse was there right off the bat on this one, but there was enough other flavor coming through that I was able to enjoy it somewhat. But on the second night, forget about it. Literally nothing left but mouse. Which is unfortunate because this is a delicate grape whose flavors I find charming. |
| White |
2020 La Grange aux Belles Vin de France Les Moyens du BordChenin Blanc more |
3/8/2022 - Nyllet wrote: NRQuite thin nose with tropical fruit and something green. Light and fresh on the palette with some pineapple. Nice acidity. |
| Red |
2010 La Grange aux Belles 53Anjou Cabernet Franc more |
12/16/2021 - BillyOsh Likes this wine: 88 pointsSuper tasty 11 years in. Pencil lead, black tar macerated blackberries. But savory aromas and flavors far outweighing fruity flavors but in no manner a bad way. Tannins integrated but present. Alcohol is saying hello. Very happy with choosing to pull the cork tonight. |
| White |
2018 La Grange aux Belles FragileAnjou-Saumur Chenin Blanc more |
7/30/2021 - vinum bonum wrote: 90 pointsJe ne connaissais pas ce blanc, qui s'ouvre sur un nez très discret. En revanche, j'ai été agréablement surpris par la bouche, à la fois ronde, patinée (j'aurais parié sur 7 ou 8 ans de bouteille), avec une superbe finale saline. La concentration et la persistance sont correctes, le vin file vite. C'est très bon. |
| Red |
2019 La Grange aux Belles 53Vin de France Cabernet Franc more |
5/30/2021 - wormfarmer Likes this wine: NRSlatey black core with vibrant midweight red fruit atop. (Pyrazines in check.) Moused up pretty good by the time I checked in on it on Day 2. |
| White |
2018 La Grange aux Belles Chenin La Roche de MûrsVin de France Chenin Blanc more |
4/14/2021 - bevetroppo Likes this wine: 91 pointsSometimes when drinking a beautiful glass of Loire chenin blanc, I think all other white wine grapes on the planet must be jealous-yes I'm talking to you chardonnay. Nothing else so effortlessly conveys ripe fruit, a host of complementary aromas and flavors, rippling acidity and textural excitement, to say nothing of food-friendliness. I think if I could only have one white wine this would be it. I don't mean this specific wine, oh you know what I mean... |
| White |
2010 La Grange aux Belles FragileAnjou-Saumur Chenin Blanc more |
1/26/2021 - rmh66 wrote: 87 pointsAnother ancient bottle. On PnP, the nose showed a heavily oxidized wine, with celery and herb notes plus citrus. However, the next day, the sherry-like notes are much less. Still this probably should have been drunk years ago. Aromas of cider, deck stain, earth, sherry, chlorine pool, oregano, lemon, celery. (yeah, really) Lemon, underripe stone fruit, earth, hay, light sherry notes on the palate. Actually a pretty nice wine, though you have to have a tolerance for oxidized wine. |
| Red |
2018 La Grange aux Belles Vin de France La Chaussée RougeRed Blend more |
4/18/2020 - tobyc Likes this wine: 86 pointsMade from Grolleau and Cabernet franc. |
| White |
2018 La Grange aux Belles FragileAnjou-Saumur Chenin Blanc more |
12/13/2020 - VinoMomNola Likes this wine: 89 pointsAmazing CB! I liked it is certainly fragile in a sense yet it was my first CB that I could really imagine pairing to red meat. Great experience. |
| White |
2017 La Grange aux Belles FragileAnjou-Saumur Chenin Blanc more |
10/25/2020 - lukanied Likes this wine: 94 pointsMarc Houtin founded La Grange aux Belles near Anjou in 2004, studied geology and worked at Château d’Yquem making Sauternes. He recruited viticulturist Julien Bresteau in 2006 and their first vintage was released in 2008. |
| Red |
2019 La Grange aux Belles Vin de France La Chaussée RougeRed Blend more |
9/9/2020 - AudunG wrote: 87 pointsFruity, dark aromas with a touch of something green. Soft, savoury and easygoing, with nice structure. Balanced and delicious. |
| Red |
2018 La Grange aux Belles 53Vin de France Cabernet Franc more |
8/24/2020 - Yapou8 Likes this wine: 82 pointsA little bite young for me |
| Red |
2018 La Grange aux Belles 53Vin de France Cabernet Franc more |
8/20/2020 - Yapou8 Likes this wine: 80 pointsUltra végétal, it smell like wet and humide leaf, green peper. It’s 100% Cabernet Franc and we feel it |
| Red |
2009 La Grange aux Belles NinaAnjou-Saumur Gamay more |
6/12/2020 - tward Likes this wine: 88 pointsAnother head scratcher of a wine in that it sat buried in the cellar for years after it probably should have been consumed. On the decline, but nothing notably off, so a pleasant surprise. Lots of depth here with some barnyard funk. |
| Red |
2019 La Grange aux Belles Vin de France La Chaussée RougeRed Blend more |
5/26/2020 - Elycohn Likes this wine: 88 pointsCarbonic maceration via 50/50 Cab Franc and Grolleau in the style of Beaujolais Nouveau - translucent violet with grapey spiced fruit. Light, jovial, for the summer. |
| White |
2018 La Grange aux Belles Chenin La Roche de MûrsVin de France Chenin Blanc more |
3/17/2020 - Finare Vinare wrote: 92 pointsFrom La Roche de Murs, vineyard close to a Loire river tributary just south of Angers. Ripe and pure aromas of honey, quince, and chamomile. Fairly full-bodied, with excellent ripeness and concentration, balanced alcohol, embedded acidity, and tingling minerality. Truly outstanding chenin! And it might be the first time that sympathetic La Grange aux Belles perform at such lofty levels of quality. (Disclaimer ITB with Swedish importer Vin & Natur). |
| Red |
2015 La Grange aux Belles Vin de France Brise d'AunisRed Blend more |
1/1/2020 - MikeATL Likes this wine: 93 pointsCaptivating celery salt and white pepper with crunchy red fruit, a brilliant Pineau d’Aunis. |
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