Community Tasting Note

• eboracum wrote: 87 points

  July 28, 2015 - A few years ago, this wine was one of the best Loire reds I have ever drunk but, on the evidence of this bottle, I have kept them (2 bottles left) too long. Colour was still quite deep red with little bricking. The nose was still attractive but the pencil shavings now dominated with less ethereal fruit than I recall. The palate seemed to have kept its structure but the fruit, flesh and underlying roundness have receded leaving a classy but rather dry and angular wine with a slightly bitter finish. I hope the remaining bottles are closer to their prime. Still quite good.
  
  PS: THT's note is very close to what I remember from earlier bottles and increases my hopes for my remaining bottles.

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• THT commented:

  9/13/15, 3:51 AM - Sorry your botte has list it's fruit ! You never know with these old bottles. I still have 6 or 7, hope they will Be as good as the one we had this summer !

• eboracum commented:

  9/13/15, 4:50 AM - At the time I got my last bottles of '89, R-N Legrand also let me have for a song a few bottles of '82, which he considered well over the hill. The last two of those were still delightful, if elderly; better that this bottle of '89. Still I remain hopeful that my two remaining '89s will be back to form!

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