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• Ernestas Likes this wine: 95 points

  January 18, 2024 - Finally my first Rougeard, by many wine lovers claimed as epitome of Chenin perfection. Comes from 1.5 ha 100+ year old vines, minimal intervention winemaking, 24 months in barrels, 20% new, bottled unfiltered. Deep golden. Intense clean and multilayered aroma of honeyed apple, flint, stone, acacia, smoke, ripe pears, almonds, pine resin. Full body, concentrated & weighty texture symbiotically coherent with taut and tense high juicy acidity, deep flavours, mineral saline and smoky touches, everlasting finish.

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• MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  March 14, 2023 - Wine Workshop: Focus on Clos Rougeard (Cafe Evergreen): Not quite what I was expecting as I think of 2011 as a banner year for whites and more of the acid and fresh style. This was ginger and lemon but then almost this hint of sourness and much more full-bodied than you might expect for the year. Still a really interesting and more intellectual style of wine that I enjoyed.

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• Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  May 12, 2022 - Smells of chamomile tea, baked apple and flinty mineral. It has a waxy feel in the mouth and there’s good density and complexity. Structural elements are relaxed yet still support. It feels like it is entering a very drinkable stage of its long evolution.

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• swfc wrote: 88 points

  May 12, 2022 - Hmm... Deep golden hue. Certainly evolved. Not oxidised, but certainly much more developed than expected Might be a bad bottle, but this was not a great showing.

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• chatters wrote:

  April 29, 2022 - En-Primeur campaign for the 2021 vintage; 4/25/2022-4/29/2022 (Bordeaux): Citrus, slight herbaceousness, just beginning to show some tertiary notes. Works well with the tataki beef but it’s a bit sharp by itself. Not very impressed by this offering – I would have preferred, at about a quarter of the cost, the Domaine des sables verts les roueres 2020 that I had at Vins Urbains earlier.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2011
• Type White
• Producer Clos Rougeard (Foucault)
• Varietal Chenin Blanc
• Designation Blanc
• Vineyard Brézé
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Anjou-Saumur
• Appellation Saumur

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• In Cellars 237 (62%)
• Consumed 143 (38%)

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