Community Tasting Notes 23

• melvinyeowq wrote: 92 points

  December 22, 2023 - French but no Burgundy/Bordeaux theme: My contribution. Everyone guessed northern Rhone for this, but not sure if I understood why. Didn’t have any Loire greenness despite the weaker vintage, but was built more like a traditional Bordeaux from a more classic vintage with some leafy herbal notes. Pleasurable and drinking at peak now.

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• MJReb wrote: 89 points

  December 12, 2022 - Bell pepper, green notes, a lot of soil. You can see the class of this wine, but it is simply reduced by the vintage.

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• eboracum Likes this wine: 91 points

  August 8, 2022 - On first sip before food, this was quite full for Chinon with savoury ivy tinged fruit, quite strong acidity and still marked tannins. However, after a mouthful of marbled Hereford beef and peppery Mediterranean vegetables, the fruit became more gracious and the tannins riper seeming and just right to cope with the food. This is a classy wine with a pairing which softens the rather austere 2004 style. Very good.

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• eboracum wrote: 88 points

  July 1, 2021 - This wine has a severity which is not typical of Chinon or even of Dioterie itself, but is typical of the vintage. My previous bottle was opened about 5 years ago and, while the aromas have opened up somewhat since then, the wine's austere character is unchanged. Palate was medium+ bodied, showing savoury fruit, earthy minerals, fresh tangy and leathery acidity encased in still marked tannic structure. Blind, I would take this for a robust bougeois left bank claret from a cool vintage. There is none of the gracious elegance which I associate with Dioterie's best vintages. Good in its way, though.

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• MJReb wrote: 90 points

  March 7, 2019 - After opening some green notes, herbal, with green bell pepper notes, meaty, some mushrooms with wet earth, not really clean. With air it’s getting better: dark morello fruit, tobacco, still some bell pepper notes, earth, pretty good for a 2004.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2004
• Type Red
• Producer Charles Joguet
• Varietal Cabernet Franc
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Clos de la Dioterie
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Touraine
• Appellation Chinon
• UPC Code 4000138262826

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• In Cellars 32 (12%)
• Consumed 240 (88%)

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